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THE 2019 DOPE CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 11 - 13, 2019

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​The 2019 annual conference of the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts will celebrate Emmett Lee Dickinson's 216th birthday with the uproarious sequel to Molly Shannon's performance in Wild Nights with Emily (pictured at the left). 

From the review in The New York Times:  

"Jake Gyllenhaal delivers an Oscar-worthy performance that signifies a career-high in the Emmett Lee Dickinson biopic Wild Rice with Emmett Lee. The back of Gyllenhaal’s head takes up the entire screen several times in tight close-ups that capture the actor’s breadth as he delivers a masterful performance in a most revealing portrait of Dickinson – placing the audience in the troubled mind of the accomplished poet."


The title of Wild Rice with Emmett Lee comes from the poet's now-classic poem, "Wild rice -- Wild rice!" (below on the left).  Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "Wild nights -- Wild nights!" (below on the right), the inspiration for the title of Molly Shannon's movie Wild Nights with Emily.
By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
Wild rice – Wild rice!
Long grain or whole –
Wild rice is steaming
My life by the bowl!
 
Futile – the Cook –
Who microwaves –
Done in an Instant –
Done without Taste!
 
With passion I’ve eaten –
Wild Rice – I assert –
It might be for dinner – but should be –
Dessert!

 
By Emily Dickinson:
 
Wild nights – Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
 
Futile – the Winds –
To a Heart in port –
Done with the Compass –
Done with the Chart!
 
Rowing in Eden –
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor – Tonight –
In thee!

Keynote Speakers & Other Guests

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​Jake Gyllenhaal

Jake Gyllenhaal, the star of the new major motion picture Wild Rice with Emmett Lee -- the complicated and stunning sequel to Wild Nights with Emily -- will open the 2019 DOPE conference.  Following the premiere of the movie, Gyllenhaal will speak on his love of America's greatest poet and how he draws inspiration from Dickinson's life and work.



​Devin Nunes' Cow


Everyone's favorite bovine on Twitter will present his dissertation "The Nature and Properties of GOP Manure, The Party's Method of Spreading a Never-ending Supply of Dung, and the Effect It Has on Sheep in the Trumpocene Era."

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​Dr. ​J. Hobson Renfield 

 J. Hobson Renfield is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor Emeritus of Confectionery Sciences at Princeton University and the world's leading Candy Cornithologist.  He will be a keynote speaker at the opening festivities to discuss the history of the War on National Candy Corn Day and to share plans for a world-wide demonstration to protest a recent hate-filled tweet about candy corn from on "Tony Posnanski" (if that is his real name).  Information is HERE and HERE.


​​Donald T. Tump

Donald T. Tump's twitter blew up this past August when stable genius Donald Trump misspelled his own name -- as Donald Ttump!  

Mr. Tump will discuss how the histrionics and bigly vocabulary of  Donald Trump's twitter rants affect ordinary people like himself, his third cousin, Edna Jewel Covfefe, and others like pet groomer Avery Hamberder, colonist George With, and two Corinthians from Liberty University.
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