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In The Zooms Where It Happened

12/16/2020

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Last week, on 12/10, I participated in three events in honor of Emily Dickinson's 190th birthday.  One was at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, PA, one took place at the Houghton Library at Harvard, in Boston, MA, and one was sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.  Of course, due to the need for social distancing brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, all three events were provided online, and I viewed all three from home.

Below left:  A greeting from Emily Dickinson's bedroom from the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst.  Alas, I do not have the host's name, but she said that the event broke the museum's record for geographic representation at one of their online programs with 35 different countries represented at this birthday celebration.

Below middle:  I didn't have any of Dickinson's Black Cake handy, so I enjoyed a freshly baked pretzel while viewing the program from the Houghton Library.

Below right:  Poet Dorianne Laux read her own poetry and selected poems by Emily Dickinson at the event sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library. 
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Left:  The celebration in Amherst opened with a performance by an Italian band called "Anais."  They sang their original song based on Emily Dickinson's poem, "I'm Nobody!  Who are you?" 

The theme of the event was "Who is your Emily Dickinson," and the program included various videos from Dickinson aficionados who spoke about their own personal connections to the poet and her poetry.  Some of the speakers recited their favorite poems by Dickinson.
Below:  The program included a flight over Amherst for an aerial view of the city, the Emily Dickinson Museum, and other sites around the town.  (One suggestion if they ever do this again:  Please have someone narrate the flight so that viewers know what they are looking at.  Fortunately, I've been to Amherst a few times, so I had a pretty good idea as to what I was seeing.)
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Left:  Pilot Jim Arnold
Right:  The rolling hills near Amherst.
Below left: An aerial shot of Amherst.
Below center:  Dickinson's Homestead (on the right) and the Evergreens (on the left).
Below right:  West Cemetery, burial site of Emily Dickinson.
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The program also included...

* Instructions to craft a collage of a color-by-number portrait of Dickinson.
* Two special guests from Apple TV's "Dickinson," the show's creator, Alena Smith, and Ella Hunt, who portrays Susan Gilbert, who would become Dickinson's sister-in-law.
* A discussion of Dickinson's quite remarkable recipe for Black Cake (the ingredients include 19 eggs and -- if I heard correctly -- five pounds of raisins). 

Some of the favorite poems recited by the fans of Dickinson:

* "Hope" is the thing with feathers

​* I died for Beauty -- but was scarce

* How happy is the little stone

* This is my letter to the World (sung to the tune of Amazing Grace by a 7th grade class in New Hampshire)


At the right:  Coincidentally, the program ended with Efrat Ben Zur's interpretation of "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" -- the same poem that inspired the group that opened the program.

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"Team Cake" from Houghton Library (& other esteemed institutions) hosted an event at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern), and the program included quiet an impressive assembly of authors, poets, professors, and more.

They also spoke with Alena Smith, creator of Apple TV's "Dickinson," and she shared a sneak peek of a scene from  Season 2.


Below:  The sneak peek into Season 2 of Apple TV's "Dickinson"  starred Hailee Steinfeld as Emily Dickinson as she prepared her 20-pound Black Cake for a baking contest to give the Amherst College Cattle Show a "generously spiced ass kicking" (and then, quipped Alena Smith, "hijinks ensued"). 
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The program's readers and guests included food historian Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate;  Abigail Weil, food writer -- and much more;  Heather Cole, curator of rare, unique, and special materials at the Brown University Library;  NPR's Nikki Silva, co-creator of "The Kitchen Sisters";  Vanessa Braganza from the Harvard English Department; Emilie Hardman, Head of Distinctive Collections for MIT Libraries; Shayla Lawson, Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College;  Rachel Syme, contributing author to "The New Yorker";  Margaret Rhee, author of a collection of poems called Love Robot; Ann Kjellberg, founding editor of Book Post;   Allison Devers, author and dealer in rare books;  author and poet Tracie Morris; and "Poet; Activist; Change-Maker," Amanda Gorman. 

The panel shared favorite poems of Dickinson's, provided some history of food from Mount Holyoke College, discussed accounts of Emily Dickinson's chores at home ("Emily did the butterfly duties of the house, and her sister Lavinia did the moth part"), and provided readings from the letters of Emily Dickinson, and more.
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The evening program sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library began with a tour of Emily Dickinson's bedroom provided by Jane Wald, the Executive Director of the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA. 
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The main feature of the Folger's program was poetry readings by poet Dorianne Laux, who intermingled poems of her own with poems by Emily Dickinson. 
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Many of Laux's poems were inspired by anecdotes from Dickinson's life and/or by many of her the poet's personal objects -- her basket (the very one she would fill with goodies and lower from her bedroom window to the excited children waiting below), her tea cup ("Bring me the sunset in a cup"), a clock, and more.  In one of her poems, Laux imagined speaking to the poet once she had died, and within her poem, Laux embedded all of the words from Dickinson's  "Like Brooms of steel" (below on the left).

Having seen the tour of Dickinson's room provided by Jane Wald, Laux said she was feeling inspired to write poems based on some of the other objects -- Dickinson's hurricane lamp, her sleigh bed, and of course, her white dress. 

"The objects come alive to me," said Laux, "and t
he more you get into them, the more they speak to you personally.  It's  as if Emily Dickinson is speaking to me, directly to me, through the years."

"One day..." she added, "One day I'm going to write about that dress."


By Emily Dickinson:

Like Brooms of Steel
The Snow and Wind
Had swept the Winter Street –
The House was hooked
The Sun sent out
Faint Deputies of Heat –
Where rode the Bird
The Silence tied
His ample – plodding Steed
The Apple in the Cellar snug
Was all the one that played.

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A Something in a Winter's Night

12/22/2019

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From Jim Asher, the world's leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request):

On December 9th I attended "a something in a winter's night" -- okay, in a late autumn's night -- a celebration of Emily Dickinson's 189th birthday at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.  Billed as an "Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute," the program included the presentation of the Emily Dickinson Museum's "Tell it Slant" award to one of the evening's speakers, artist Lesley Dill.  Tom Sleigh also read some of his and Emily Dickinson's poetry.

Below left and right:  Prior to the event, I celebrated with the traditional drink to celebrate Dickinson's birthday, a Margarita on the rocks with salt, and with Emily Dickinson's favorite meal -- chicken enchiladas.

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Below left:  Emily Dickinson.  The tribute on December 9th (her actual birthday is December 10th) was for her 189th birthday -- though I have to admit, she doesn't look a day over 188.   Below center:  The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.  Below right:  The library is in the shadow of the US Capitol.
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Below left:  The program for the program.  Below center and right:  Following the birthday tribute, there was a reception with Emily Dickinson's "black cake" paired with some delicious Trimbach white wine.
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Below left:  Artist Lesley Dill   Below center:  Just a few examples of Dill's art inspired by the words of Emily Dickinson   Below right:  Poet Tom Sleigh
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Dill opened the program by showing some highlights from her opera "Divide Light" (shown below), an operatic choral reading with shape note singing  of selected poems by Dickinson.   The title is taken from the second line of Dickinson's poem "Banish Air from Air" (at the right).    
                     

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Banish Air from Air -
Divide Light if you dare -
They'll meet
While Cubes in a Drop
Or Pellets of Shape
Fit -
Films cannot annul
Odors return whole
Force Flame
And with a Blonde push
Over your impotence
Flits Steam.

Dill then posed the question, "How did I come to use language and text in my artwork?"



How ruthless are the gentle –
How cruel are the kind  –
God broke his contract to his Lamb
To qualify the Wind  –

"Meaning was already in me -- and then my mother gave me an unwieldy (I think that was the word Dill used) book of poetry."

She confessed that she wasn't much into poetry, but she did glance at the book -- and then she began reading it.  Then she began devouring it.

"Prior to Dickinson, I already had a rebellious mind, but I wasn't aware of the impact these poems would have on me.  These words had wings, and I felt the words like...like a blue light."

She then recited "How ruthless are the gentle (at the left).






"The words (of Dickinson) went in and came out willy-nilly for me. It was magical."

One example she gave, "White had always been cold for me -- but now -- heat?"  She quoted from "Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?" (at the right).

"I held an ocean of images in response to the words," said Dill.

"We hold so many words -- inside us -- the words that actually reach the air are few compared to those inside."

She then confessed, "I am a word thief.  Words don't come to me like images do -- but the words make want to move ideas out of my mind."




Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat?
Then crouch within the door –
Red – is the Fire's common tint –
But when the vivid Ore

Has vanquished Flame's conditions,
It quivers from the Forge
Without a color, but the light
Of unanointed Blaze.

Least Village has its Blacksmith
Whose Anvil's even ring
Stands symbol for the finer Forge
That soundless tugs – within –

Refining these impatient Ores
With Hammer, and with Blaze
Until the Designated Light
Repudiate the Forge –
Your thoughts don’t have words every day
They come a single time
Like signal esoteric sips
Of the communion Wine
Which while you taste so native seems
So easy so to be
You cannot comprehend its price
Nor its infrequency


Dill compared her exploration and discovery of words to the wilderness: 

"Wilderness:  Words are Where What I catch is me -- what makes me a poet.  The wilderness out there -- and inside."

Click the image below for information on this past show at the
Nohra Haime Gallery.
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Poet Tom Sleigh followed Dill, and he alternated readings of his own poetry with poems by Emily Dickinson.  He began with Dickinson's "I cannot live with you" (at the right) -- "my favorite," said Sleigh.

Following the poem, he paused  -- and then whispered, "Not too shabby."

Other Dickinson poems he read included, "These Strangers, in a foreign World," "My Triumph lasted till the Drums," and "There is no Frigate like a book."

In between the readings of Dickinson, Sleigh read some of his own poems, each with simple stories -- but deep encounters -- with particular and precise words.  One was about the life of a refugee (right after Dickinson's "These Strangers, in a foreign World), and one -- "a personal poem," he said -- on how soldiers deal with war.

Sleigh also told stories form is youth to explain the source of his love of language.  For a time, his parents ran a drive-in movie theater, and he'd be there on nights when no babysitter was available.

"I'd listen to the opening strains of the movie music," he said, "and then the voices -- interwoven with dreams -- because I'd fall asleep to this -- and I believe it gave me a heightened sense of language."

Dill responded, "How interesting -- words floating on the air and into you."

I cannot live with You –
It would be Life –
And Life is over there –
Behind the Shelf

The Sexton keeps the Key to –
Putting up
Our Life – His Porcelain –
Like a Cup –

Discarded of the Housewife –
Quaint – or Broke –
A newer Sevres pleases –
Old Ones crack –

I could not die – with You –
For One must wait
To shut the Other's Gaze down –
You – could not –

And I – Could I stand by
And see You – freeze –
Without my Right of Frost –
Death's privilege?

Nor could I rise – with You –
Because Your Face
Would put out Jesus' –
That New Grace

Glow plain – and foreign
On my homesick Eye –
Except that You than He
Shone closer by –

They'd judge Us – How –
For You – served Heaven – You know,
Or sought to –
I could not –

Because You saturated Sight –
And I had no more Eyes
For sordid excellence
As Paradise

And were You lost, I would be –
Though My Name
Rang loudest
On the Heavenly fame –

And were You – saved –
And I – condemned to be
Where You were not –
That self – were Hell to Me –

So We must meet apart –
You there – I – here –
With just the Door ajar
That Oceans are – and Prayer –
And that White Sustenance –
Despair –


Following both speakers, Jane Wald, the Director of the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA, presented Lesley DIll with the Museum's "Tell It Slant" award.

Below right:  Following the program, I snapped a selfie with the Dickinson Museum's Director Jane Wald!


Tell all the truth but tell it slant –
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind –

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The F-Word, Part 3

12/27/2018

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From Jim Asher, the world's leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request): 

I attended the 188th Birthday Tribute to Emily Dickinson at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC,  on December 10. 

At the tribute, Jan Bervin, one of the editors of The Gorgeous Nothings, spoke on the work of Jay Layde in documenting the life and work of Emily Dickinson.  I wrote about Ms. Bervin's presentation in "The F-Word, Part 1" HERE.

After Bervin spoke, Martha Nell Smith, the president of the Emily Dickinson International Society, talked on the letters between and relationship of Emily Dickinson and Susan Hutchinson Dickinson, Austin Dickinson's wife.  I wrote about Ms. Smith's presentation in "The F-Word, Part 2" HERE. 

In both Parts 1 and 2 I mentioned that at the event, Ms. Smith used the F-word (hence, the title for my posts).


No, no, no!  NOT THAT F-WORD! 

Okay. Here's what happened.

After Bervin and Smith spoke, there was a very short panel discussion -- along with Madeleine Olnek, the director of the new film Wild Nights with Emily -- with questions from the audience.   

Following the Q&A, everyone funneled into the "Great Hall" for a treat, a taste of wine and a piece of Emily Dickinson's Black Cake made by a local baker. ​

Pictured at the right:  A splash of some white wine (hey, it was free, so I can't complain) and a piece of Emily Dickinson's Black Cake.

After the cake, I stopped by the library's small gift shop where I picked up a copy of Open Me Carefully, a volume of letters between Emily Dickinson and Susan Dickinson edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith.
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After making my purchase, I made my way to a table where Bervin and Smith were signing copies of their books.  

Since I already own a copy of The Gorgeous Nothings, edited by Jane Bervin, Marta Werne, and Susan Howe, I did not purchase another one.  Instead, I explained to Ms. Bervin that my copy of her book was at home, and I asked her to sign my program for the evening's event. 


Pictured below left:  The Folger's program for the Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute -- which included a copy of Dickinson's poem "Wild Nights -- Wild Nights" in the poet's handwriting.  Below center:  Bervin's signature on my program.  Below right:  Smith's book, Open Me Carefully.  

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Pictured at the right:  Smith signed her book by quoting a line from her presentation (with a line from a letter written by Susan Hutchinson Dickinson):  "For James -- Poetry is Sermon -- Hope -- Solace -- Life -- Martha Nell Smith."

When Ms. Smith handed me the signed copy of her book, she asked something like, "Have we met before?"  

I reminded her that we had, indeed, met two years ago when I had attended the EDIS annual conference in Amherst and also last year when I had attended the 187th Birthday Tribute at the Folger.

Then I added, "and I help to maintain a site about Emily Dickinson's third cousin, Emmett Lee Dickinson."  
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That's when it happened -- the F-word.

"That's you," laughed Smith with a broadening smile on her face.  "You're fantastic!" 

Hmm.  Maybe it was, "You're fabulous"  I can't remember.  But it was one of those two F-words -- either "fantastic" or "fabulous."  

Aw shucks -- I'm sure I was blushing.

I was just thankful she didn't call for security to have me removed from the premises.  Poetry, after all, is a serious business. Yes, I take my humor seriously, but I always hope that people don't think my parodies and funny-business aren't disdainful about third cousin Emily.  On the contrary.  We, too, at the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum are in awe of Emily's work.  



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The F-Word, Part 2

12/24/2018

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From Jim Asher, the world's leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request):

I attended the 188th Birthday Tribute for Emily Dickinson at the Folger Shakespeare Library on December 10, 2018.
 
This is Part 2 of my recap of the event.  Part 1 is HERE.  


​After Jen Bervin’s presentation on Jay Layde’s work, Martha Nell Smith, the president of the Emily Dickinson International Society, spoke about “an unintentional” lie she helped promulgate in her work in presenting her dissertation years ago.  Before she confessed the lie, though, she asked those in attendance to keep a quote in mind – one in a letter to Susan Dickinson from Emily Dickinson:
 
"Dear Sue ~  With  the exception of Shakespeare, you have  told  me  of more  knowledge than any one living -- To  say  that  sincerely is  strange  praise.”
 
‘Twas then Ms. Smith divulged her lie – that Susan Dickinson was not all that important to Emily Dickinson.

To be honest, though, this view – that Susan’s role in Emily’s life was slight – was more a “false fact,” a belief accepted as truth in its day rather than a deliberate lie.  


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Ms. Smith then reminded the audience of her opening quote and took time to set the record straight.  Interestingly enough, it was Jay Leyda who – when he learned that Ms. Smith researched the letters of Emily Dickinson – advised her to spend her career in righting this misconception, “for Susan Dickinson had been greatly wronged.”
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In truth, Emily Dickinson wrote more letters to Susan than any other person with whom she corresponded (and we’re talking hundreds of more letters) – and the main culprit in creating and perpetuating this myth (an "alternative fact" in today's lingo) was none other than Mabel Loomis Todd, Austin Dickinson’s mistress.
 
Much of Smith’s work to undo the decades of tangled tales and perceptions is presented in her book Open Me Carefully, an insightful collection of some of Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondences with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law.
 
Slowly but surely, the record is being straight on Susan Hutchinson Gilbert Dickinson, who – in a letter to Curtis Hidden Page – noted that “Poetry is Sermon – Hope – Solace – Life.”
 
After Smith’s presentation there was a short panel discussion with Bervin, Smith, and Madeleine Olnek, the director of the new film “Wild Nights with Emily.”
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Later in the evening was when Smith blurted out the “F-Word” (as I noted in Part 1) – but no no, no – NOT that “F-Word.”  But more on that later.  I promise to get to that in Part 3 of this review.  Coming soon.


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The F-Word, Part 1

12/23/2018

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From Jim Asher, the world's leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request:

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I attended the birthday tribute to Emily Dickinson at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC on December 10th, and there I conversed with Martha Nell Smith, the president of the Emily Dickinson International Society – and she used the “F-word.”
 
NO, NO, NO – not THAT “F-word.”  A different “F-word.”  But I’ll get to that later – perhaps in Part 2 of this post?  For now, dear reader, read on about the event.



I arrived in the Capitol Hill area of Washington with little time to spare, so I had a quick dinner at the nearby Santa Rosa Taqueria.  The restaurant’s Happy Hour special included chips and queso – and TWO margaritas.  Yes, I was travelling alone, but what’s a poet to do?  TWO margaritas.

Pictured at the right:  The Happy Hour special at the Santa Rosa Taqueria included TWO margaritas!

“The Soul achieves — Herself (or “Himself, in my case) — To drink”  ~ Emily Dickinson
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I made it to the Folger Shakespeare Library with a little time to spare, and when I took my seat I was a bit perplexed by the set up on the stage – more specifically, by the information on the initial slide projected on the screen:
 
“Emily Dickinson’s 132 Birthday Tribute.”
 
Huh?

I wondered why the screen said “132 Birthday Tribute,” when December 10, 2018, marked Emily Dickinson’s 188th birthday.

Pictured at the left:  My somewhat-blurry picture of the opening slide welcoming the audience to "Emily Dickinson's 132 Birthday Tribute."
 
Had the Folger Shakespeare Library been around that long?  Was this the library’s 132nd tribute celebrating Emily Dickinson’s birth?  No.  I googled-search  information about the library, and it was built in the 1930s.

Had the Poetry Society of America – a sponsor for the event – been around for 132 years or more?  Was this their 132nd birthday tribute to the Belle of Amherst?  No.  I google-searched that too.  The PSA was founded in 1910.
 
After some additional sleuthing I realized that whoever made the slide based the calculation of Dickinson’s age on the year of her death, 1886:  2018 – 1886 = 132.
 
Oops.
 
“We turn not older with year, but newer every day.”  ~ Emily Dickinson.
 
On December 10, 2018, Emily Dickinson turned 188 years new:  2018 – 1830 (the year of her birth) = 188.


The main event for the evening included presentations by Martha Nell Smith, a founding board member and current president of the Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS), and Jan Bervin, an editor of The Gorgeous Nothings, a full-color facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts as she wrote it on scraps of paper and torn envelopes.
 
Bervin spoke first and presented information on the work of Jay Leyda, a filmmaker and film historian who is also noted for his work on documenting the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Bervin showed slides of the original letters between Leyda and Theodora Ward and Thomas. H. Johnson (editors of The Letters of Emily Dickinson, the three volume edition published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University in 1958), Millicent Todd Bingham (daughter of David Peck Todd and Mabel Loomis Todd), Mary Landis Hampson (the last surviving resident at the Evergreens, the home of Austin Dickinson and his family), and more.
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Bervin’s information proved that assembling complete and accurate volumes of Dickinson’s was no easy task for many reasons -- including working through the tangle of the Dickinson’s family history, deciphering the poet's handwriting, dealing with multiple versions of many of the poems, and more. 
 
“This is a nasty business,” she said.  “But there it is.”

Next up was Martha Nell Smith who promptly confessed that she based much of her early work and her dissertation on a lie, albeit, the unintentional telling of a lie.  It was later in the evening that she used the “F-word.” 

No, no, no – not THAT “F-word.”
 
But I’ll get to that next time!  Watch for Part 2 of this post, coming soon! 
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Into The Wild

12/8/2018

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From Jim Asher, the world's leading authority on Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request):

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I received a reminder about the Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute on Monday, December 10, at the Folger Shakespeare Library.  I'll be there.
 
I also attended the October 12th birthday tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson at the Folger Coffee Company Plant where Meryl Streep and Servi-Tron, the new futuristic robot at Starbucks, read from The Garbaged Somethings, a collection of scraps and spoils with the poetry of Emmett Lee Dickinson.
 
To read our past posts on The Garbaged Somethings, click HERE.
 
This Monday’s tribute to Emily Dickinson includes a screening of “Wild Nights with Emily ,” a soon-to-be released film about the Belle of Amherst.
 
October’s tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson included a similar affair with the screening of the Oscar-nominated major motion picture “Wild Rice with Emmett Lee,” a cooking documentary staring Jack Black as Emmett Lee Dickinson, the Boor of Washerst.

Pictured at the right:  The Garbaged Somethings, a collection of Emmett Lee Dickinson poems on scraps and spoils.

Below left:  The movie poster for "Wild Nights with Emily"

Below right:  The movie poster for "Wild Rice with Emmett Lee."
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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!


​By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

 
Wild Rice – Wild Rice!
Long grain of 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!


Below:  An exclusive photo of Jack Black during the filming of "Wild Rice with Emmett Lee."
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​If you are present at Monday night's event at the Folger Shakespeare, be sure to say, "Hello."  

I'll be wearing my pin of third cousin Emily (pictured at the right).
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Garbage Man

9/18/2018

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From our current affairs editor Lemuel Stuart III:
  
On October 12, 2018, the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts -- in conjunction with the Folger Coffee Company -- will present a very special birthday tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).  At the event, Meryl Streep and Starbucks' new robotic coffee barista named Servi-Tron will discuss the recent publication The Garbaged Somethings, a collection of scraps of paper and bits of trash on which Dickinson wrote lines of poetry and complete poems.

Pictured at the right:  The DOPE brochure announcing the Emmett Lee Dickinson birthday tribute.  Click the image to enlarge.

Below:  The birthday tribute will be held at the Folger Coffee Company plant in historic Washerst, PA (the birthplace of Emmett Lee Dickinson).
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Below:  The event will be held in the stunning Emmett Lee Dickinson Auditorium inside the Folger plant:
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​Below:  The Emmett Lee Dickinson Centennial Birthday Tribute in the Folger Coffee Company Auditorium in October of 1903.  First years later, in 1953, the auditorium was re-named in honor of America's greatest poet.

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Below:  President Theodore Roosevelt was present at the 1903 Dickinson Centennial event.  He was one of the keynote speakers.  

As part of his address, Roosevelt said, "I am a part of everything that I have read, and all of Emmett Lee Dickinson is a part of me."

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Below:  On October 12, 1953, the Folger Coffee Company Auditorium was renamed the Emmett Lee Dickinson Auditorium, and the keynote speaker was Robert Frost. The guest list included President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Anthony Quinn, Shirley Booth, Thelma Ritter, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, and Ethel Merman and her soon-to-be fiancé, Ernest Borgnine.
 
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​Pictured at the right: One of the most significant events in 20th-century American history -- the marriage of Ethel Merman to Ernest Borgnine -- came about because the two met at the sesquicentennial birthday tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson in 1953. 

Inside the newly re-named Emmett Lee Dickinson Auditorium, Borgnine met Merman, to whom he became “instantly attracted”. Later he separated from his wife and proposed to Merman.  He married Merman in 1964 at the Wasteria Motel in Washerst, PA, in an elaborate wedding ceremony attended by 500 guests. Prior to their marriage Ethel Merman claimed that she had “never felt so protected, this is forever, for keeps”. 
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Left and below:  The Wastoria Motel has been synonymous with luxury since it first opened in Washerst, PA, in 1962. Guests at the Wastoria enjoy the following amenities:

·  Air conditioned rooms 
·  Colored television sets
·  Premium toilet seat covers
·  60 Watt lighting
·  Complimentary wake-up calls
·  Trash cans in every room
·  Hot water in the shower (guaranteed before 8 a.m.)
·  Bath mats (in deluxe rooms and suites)
·  Security guard on premises (on weekends)
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Pictured at the left:  In December 2018, the Folger Shakespeare Library will host a birthday tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson's third cousin, Emily Dickinson.  At the event, Jen Bervin and Martha Nell Smith will discuss The Gorgeous Nothings.

Below left: The Gorgeous Nothings.  Below right: The Garbaged Somethings.
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To see sample pages from The Garbaged Somethings, click the buttons below:
Pages 16, 23, 44, & 85
Pages 20, 35, 47 & 71
Pages 19, 32, 45, & 76
Pages 25, 48, 53, & 68
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Gorgeous Garbage -- Part 4

9/15/2018

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From our master grammarian and resident logophile, Angstrom Dickinson:
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The Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts in conjunction with the Folger Coffee Company will host a birthday tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at his request) to celebrate the publication of The Garbaged Somethings, a collection of scraps of paper and bits of trash on which Dickinson wrote lines of poetry and complete poems.

In December, a similar event to be hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library will celebrate Emily Dickinson and The Gorgeous Nothings.

Information about both events are HERE.
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Below are some of the pages from The Garbaged Somethings that will be discussed at the momentous event to be held in October:
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​Pictured at the left:  A label from a Badger Roasted Coffee can appears on page 25 of The Garbaged Somethings.  On the back of the label, Emmett Lee Dickinson wrote, "In the name of the Joe," a line he used to open this short poem:

In the name of the Joe –
And of the Jitter Juice –
And of the Brews – Amen!


Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to write this:

In the name of the Bee –
And of the Butterfly –
And of the Breeze – Amen!



Pictured at the right:  Page 48 of The Garbaged Somethings includes a coffee can lid on which Dickinson wrote his poem "A willing lid o'er weary eye":

​A willing lid o’er weary eye
As Morning on the Day dawns
Till I stumble through my House
To gain my Coffee Cup

 
Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to write this:
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As willing lid o'er weary eye
The Evening on the Day leans
Till of all our Nature's House
Remains but Balcony
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Pictured at the left: 
Page 53 of The Garbaged Somethings shows a Morning Glow coffee can on which Emmett Lee Dickinson wrote, "Cream & Sugar are for amateurs."

He never used that quip in a poem.

Pictured at the right:  Plans for a coffee pot which Emmett Lee Dickinson invented and submitted for a patent in 1853 (shown on page 68 of The Garbaged Somethings). 

Dickinson invented and received patents for at least seven different types of coffee pots, and on this particular diagram Dickinson wrote, "
Who needs a joe to greet the World," a line used in his poem "How good was my Warm Bed" (below on the left).   Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem "How good his Lava bed" (below on the right). 

For more information on Dickinson's other inventions, click HERE. 

Dickinson also coined the words "joe," "mud," "dirt," and "jitter juice" for coffee. 
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By Emmett Lee Dickinson:

How good was my Warm Bed,
To this soporific Boy –
Who needs a joe to greet the World
And start the sleepy Day –

By Emily Dickinson:

How good his Lava Bed,
To this laborious Boy –
Who must be up to call the World
And dress the sleepy Day –
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To check out other pages from The Garbaged Somethings
that will be discussed at the October 12 event,
click HERE, HERE, and HERE. 
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Gorgeous Garbage -- Part 3

9/9/2018

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From our master grammarian and resident logophile, Angstrom Dickinson:
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On October 12, 2018, there will be a birthday tribute to Emmett Lee Dickinson -- the poet who wrote more coffee poetry than any other poet -- at the Folger Coffee Company in historic Washerst, PA (the birthplace of Emmett Lee Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).  Then, on December 12, 2018, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, will host a birthday tribute to Emily Dickinson.

The October event will focus on a new publication, The Garbaged Somethings, a collection of scraps of paper and bits of trash on which Dickinson scrawled lines of poetry and thoughts and quips about coffee.

The December event will focus on the recent publication, The Gorgeous Somethings, the full-color facsimile publication of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts.
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At the October event, Meryl Streep will take the stage with Starbucks' newly develop barista robot -- called "Servi-Tron" -- to discuss the collection of Emmett Lee Dickinson's "garbaged somethings."

More information about both the October and December events is found HERE.  Some of the pages from The Garbaged Somethings are HERE and HERE.  

Additional pages are below:
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Pictured at the right: 
Page 19 of The Garbaged Somethings shows a burlap coffee bag on which Emmett Lee Dickinson scrawled the following:

For Whom the Nights become the Dawn
What must the Caffeine -- cause!


​Those lines inspired third cousin Emily to write this:

To Whom the Mornings stand for Nights,
What must the Midnights -- be!
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Pictured at the left:  On a discarded wrapper for a Coffee Crisp shown on page 32 of The Garbaged Somethings, Dickinson wrote, "Some one prepared this mighty joe With which I get my Drive to go."  He used those words to open this poem:

Some one prepared this mighty joe
With which I get my Drive to go
Through races of the Days –
To make it through my simple Door
And all I may encounter – and more

 
Dickinson's words inspired third cousin Emily to write this:

Some one prepared this mighty show
To which without a Ticket go
The nations and the Days –
Displayed before the simplest Door
That all may examine them – and more
 





Pictured at the right:  On a discard Kuerig cup (page 45 of The Garbaged Somethings), Dickinson wrote, "I love you a Latte!"  He never used that line in a poem about coffee.  

Dickinson is also credited with being the first to say, "Cool beans!"
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  Page 76 of The Garbaged Somethings shows a discarded ice cream carton on which Emmett Lee Dickinson wrote the following poem:

Consulting the office clock
But half my break remains,
I ascertain it with a shock --
I shall not look again.
The second cup of joe
Is colder than the first.
The work I do not care to know
Will end much needed rest.



Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to write this:

Consulting summer's clock,
But half the hours remain.
I ascertain it with a shock --
I shall not look again.
The second half of joy
Is shorter than the first.
The truth I do not dare to know
I muffle with a jest.
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Gorgeous Garbage -- Part 2

9/7/2018

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From our master grammarian and resident logophile, Angstrom Dickinson:

On Friday, October 12, the Dickinson Organization of Poetry Enthusiasts, in conjunction with the Folger Coffee Company, will host a birthday tribute to America's greatest poet, Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request).

Meryl Streep and Starbuck's new robot "Servi-Tron" will discuss The Garbarged Somethings, a new publication of Emmett Lee Dickinson's writings and poetry found on scraps of paper, bits of trash and more.

Information about the event -- and a companion event at the Folger Shakespeare Library on December 10 -- is HERE. 

Sample pages from
The Garbaged Somethings are HERE.  Below are more pages from this momentous new publication.

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Pictured at the left:  Page 20 of The Garbaged Somethings shows a coffee cup with Dickinson's poem "Before It comes I weigh the time."

​Before It comes I weigh the Time
‘Tis Early and ‘tis Dark,
When I depart, such Blissfulness
Inside my Coffee Cup


Dickinson's poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen this poem:

Before He comes We weigh the Time,
‘Tis Heavy and ‘tis Light,
When He depart, and Emptiness
Is the prevailing Freight



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Pictured at the right:  Page 35 displays a coffee cup lid with the following lines from Emmett Lee Dickinson:

Life is coffee we’re longing for,
Coffee the hinge to life.

These lines inspired third cousin Emily to write this:

Life is death we’re lengthy at,
Death the hinge to life.



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Pictured at the left:  On the back of a sugar packet -- shown on page 47 of The Garbaged Somethings -- Emmett Lee Dickinson wrote " How loud the Bells in Steeples peal Get coffee for this Guy."  He used those lines to open this short poem:

How loud the Bells in Steeples peal
Get coffee for this Guy
I stagger on unsteady Feet
A frantic Day nearby!


This poem inspired third cousin Emily to write this:

How still the Bells in Steeples stand
Till swollen with the Sky
They leap upon their silver Feet
In frantic Melody!
Pictured at the right:  A used napkin -- on page 71 of The Garbaged Somethings -- includes "Witchcraft has not a Pedigree / ‘Tis only just our Brew," lines which open this line:

Witchcraft has not a Pedigree
‘Tis only just our Brew
Commuters need it going out
Each day when morning’s new –


This poem by Emmett Lee Dickinson inspired third cousin Emily to pen this poem:

Witchcraft has not a Pedigree
'Tis early as our Breath
And mourners meet it going out
The moment of our death –
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In the coming days, we will post more pages from The Garbage Somethings.  
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