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WASHERST, PENNSYLVANIA,
(Emmett Lee Dickinson's birthplace),
IS NOW A UNESCO
"CITY OF LITERATURE"!

FOR DETAILS, CLICK HERE.

Love Handles? The Newel Post Museum -- in conjunction with the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum -- will present a comprehensive exhibit on KNOBS.

FOR INFORMATION ON THIS EXHIBIT, CLICK HERE.

Will the City "Ever Be the Same Again" Asks NYC Mayor after Dickinson Scholar's Visit

Excitement in NYC Builds as Dickinson Scholar's Visit Nears

NYC Bracing for Visit of Dickinson Scholar

New York Dealing with the Mounting Crisis of FOMA

UN Hopes Dickinson Scholar Will Address General Assembly

DICKINSON SCHOLAR TO VISIT THE BIG APPLE

Albuquerque Misses Out
on "Big Night"

NM Governor Martinez Greets Poetry Scholar in Taos

Santa Fe to Welcome Scholar

Scholar to Visit the O'Keeffe Museum

Poetry Scholar to Visit New Mexico

Dickinson Scholar to Visit San Francisco

DICKINSON SCHOLAR TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS, DISRUPTS ADS MEETING

DICKINSON SCHOLAR TO VISIT WASHINGTON D.C.

FIRE ENGULFS TOWN! ELD MUSEUM BURNS DOWN!

CMOA Staff Pushed To The Brink

Dickinson Scholar to Return to Pittsburgh

Fallingwater's Fourth fraught with Chaos

Major Traffic Delays Expected Near Fallingwater

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Dickinson Scholar Causes Uproar at the Warhol

"Poetry Night" at PNC Park; Dickinson Scholar to Attend

History's Most Famous Mother?

Academy & the Oscars tied to Emmett Lee Dickinson:

SNL 40: THE ORIGIN OF "MORE COWBELL"

SNL TURNS 40 -- Thanks to Emmett Lee Dickinson

Almost every SNL cast member was influenced by Emmett Lee Dickinson.

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Fifty Shades of Dickinson:

Below: A Yahoo! article when the "50 Shades" movie poster was first revealed:

MORE SNOW PREDICTED FOR BOSTON

Boston has been hard-hit this winter with record snow falls -- but it's not the first time!

Pictured at the right: During Boston's Great Blizzard of 1878, snow was packed into trains and shipped to Washest, PA.

Below left: Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) was in Boston during the Great Blizzard of 1878, and he wrote "New feet foretold for Boston snow" when additional snowfall was predicted for the week following the blizzard.

Below right: Emily Dickinson wrote her poem "New feet within my garden grow" based on her third cousin's poem.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

New feet foretold for Boston snow,
New inches add on top;
And Weather Channel at the helm
Displays the snowy spot.

New hope for children schools are closed,
New weary shifts for plows;
And still excessive flakes return,
And still the snow endows!

By Emily Dickinson:

New feet within my garden go,
New fingers stir the sod;
A troubadour upon the elm
Betrays the solitude.

New children play upon the green,
New weary sleep below;
And still the pensive spring returns,
And still the punctual snow!

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF: "DEFLATE-GATE" IS NOTHING NEW

The current "deflate-gate" debate isn't the first. Over 100 years ago, Princeton found itself in the middle of a "deflate-gate" controversy when the Tigers trounced Bryn Mawr.

Emmett Lee Dickinson wrote about the dispute in a poem called "The Air's advantage is achieved." His poem inspired his third cousin Emily Dickinson to pen her poem entitled "Despair's advantage is achieved."

Both poems are below.

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

The Air’s advantage is achieved
By deflating – the Air –
To be assisted just Reverse
One must Reverse the air –

The Worthiness of Winning’s like
The Worthiness of Dreams
Is ascertained by achieving

As can no other Teams

Of Success – make us conscious –
In games ourselves partake –
Deception’s imperceptible
Until Opponents bellyache –

By Emily Dickinson:

Despair's advantage is achieved
By suffering – Despair –
To be assisted of Reverse
One must Reverse have bore –

The Worthiness of Suffering like
The Worthiness of Death
Is ascertained by tasting –

As can no other Mouth

Of Savors – make us conscious –
As did ourselves partake –
Affliction feels impalpable
Until Ourselves are struck –

Academy in Deep Do-Do with Poop

"Downton Abbey" linked to famous Madame from Washerst

Pictured at the left:
Named for Abigail "Downtown Abby" Wellwood-Barnwell, a world-famous Madame from Washerst, season 5 of "Downton Abbey" is set to start January 5, 2015.

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A Literary Potluck

MentalFloss.com recently included a feature entitled "The Dishes 16 Writers Would Bring To A Literary Potluck," and both of the third-cousin Dickinsons were included:

Emily Dickinson would bring Cajun Nachos, a recipe she invented.

Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) would bring corn chowder, the famous soup recipe he invented.

Dickinson Scholar to Conduct Research in New York:

Dickinson Scholar to Visit New York City:

March Madness linked to Dickinson

When and why did the phrase "March Madness" come into the American lexicon? Information from the NCAA website below explains it all:

Dickinson's poem, "March Madness is divinely Tense" is the featured poem of the week; to read it, click HERE.

Dickinson Exhibit Increases Tourism in Burlington:

To view the online exhibit "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Emmett Lee Dickinson," click HERE.

"The Lego Movie" Is A Tribute To Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Timberlake's tribute to Dickinson with his 20/20 Experience:

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Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience pays tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson -- and the tribute continues at the 2014 Grammy Awards!

For more information on Dickinson's Gastro-Ocular Correlation Modulator and his other inventions, click HERE.

ADS Picks "Because" as WotY; NCTE Reacts:

Dickinson Scholar to Visit Chicago
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POETIC JUSTICE:

Private Tour at Poetry Foundation:

POETRY SLAMMED:

TWEETS IN THE NEWS:

John Steward favorited a tweet about our special exhibit "Washerst, Pennsylvania: Education Capital of the United States." Click HERE.

IKEA retweeted information about our special exhibit on the Dikeanssöhns, the Swedish relatives of the Dickinsons. Click HERE.

Poetic Justice

The lineup on Fox this fall will include a rare TV genre -- the cop in search of poetic justice.

Andy Samberg stars as Detective Jake Peralta, a character loosely based on Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

Carly Simon, Taylor Swift -- and Emmett Lee Dickinson -- in the News!

Click the images below to enlarge. On the left: Carly Simon's official web page gives details of the Simon/Swift tribute to poet Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request). On the right: The Dickinson poem that inspired his third cousin Emily Dickinson -- AND Carly Simon.

Much mystery has surrounded Simon's song You're So Vain through the years, with many music columnists and critics trying to determine who the song was written about. Most now believe that the lyrics were written about Today Show weatherman, Al Roker.

One of Dickinson's "coffee poems" inspired Carly Simon to write "You're So Vain" (above right). More of Dickinson's coffee poetry is HERE.

50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit

Flavorwire recently posted "50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit," and WOOT! We were #3 on the list -- just behind #2, the Poetry Hall of Fame (also in Washerst), and #1, the Perish & Begone Funeral Parlor, the childhood home of Emmett Lee Dickinson (the Dickinson family lived in the basement of the Perish & Begone Funeral Parlor owned by brothers Eberhard and Egan Perish and Caldwell Begone; info is HERE).

Dickinson Scholar to Visit Boston, Amherst:
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For biographical information on Jim Asher, author of Great American Poems ~ REPOEMED, click HERE.

"The Voice" Singer Draws Inspiration from Dickinson:

Disney stock plunges as DickinsonLand nears completion:

For more information on DickinsonLand, click HERE.

Zuckerberg to launch new social media platform:

The Dickinson named Top Ten Museum in the World:

Washerst named top destination for summer of 2013:

April Fools pranks tied directly to Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Obama, Netanyahu, and Dickinson

President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu pose as the American poet Emmett Lee Dickinson -- and inspire the world! See the article below from the Washington Post.

Plans now underway for the Euro-Dickinson Museum
and DickinsonLand

See the March 9, 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal below:

Pictured at the right: the proposed site for the Euro-Dickinson Museum to be built in Paris, Kentucky -- above the Same Day Cleaners & Laundromat. See above for information in the March 9, 2013, article in the Wall Street Journal.

In the wake of Manti Te'o and Lance Armstrong,
no scandal at the ELD Museum:

A NEW Likeness of Dickinson?

Could the photograph on the right be a NEW photograph of Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily Dickinson’s third cousin, twice removed (at her request)? The picture on the left is the only known likeness of the great American poet, until the photograph on the right was recently discovered by Washerst, PA, junk collector Lankinhurst Grigsby. Should the new image stand up to scrutiny and verification, it will become only the second existing photographic likeness of the reclusive Washerst poet.

Prince William & Kate's Visit to the Dickinson in 2011

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"Poetryman" Headed to Broadway
& Charlie Sheen isn't happy!