Looking for Emily

Why We Love Emily Dickinson

Robert Bly

``Miss Emily's Maggie'' Remembers

Jean Balderston

The Mystery of Emily Dickinson

Marvin Bell

Your Birthday in Wisconsin You Are 140

John Berryman

Visiting Emily Dickinson's Grave with Robert Francis

Robert Bly

For Emily Dickinson

Marianne Boruch

Queen Recluse

Lucy Brock-Broido

Emily Dickinson Attends a Writing Workshop

Jayne Relaford Brown

Emily Dickinson's To-Do List

Andrea Carlisle

Give Me Shoots, You Said

Siv Cedering

Amherst

Amy Clampitt

Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes

Billy Collins

Dickinson

Martha Collins

To Emily Dickinson

Hart Crane

Amherst with Fries

Philip Dacey

Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Madeline DeFrees

Sitting with Myself in the Seton Hall Deli at 12 O'clock Thursday Before I Read with the Great Poets at the Emily Dickinson Poetry Festival

Toi Derricotte

Emily Dickinson

Richard Eberhart

Homage to Dickinson

Lynn Emanuel

Vermont Summer

Dave Etter

A Letter for Emily Dickinson

Annie Finch

Emily Dickinson in Boston, 1864--65

Richard Foerster

Two Ghosts

Robert Francis

Of Women Who Wear White

Alice Friman

Wonder Bread

Alice Fulton

Emily's Bread

Sandra Gilbert

Emily Dickinson's Room, Main Street, Amherst

Barry Goldensohn

``Who Goes to Dine Must Take His Feast,''

David Graham

Teaching Emily Dickinson

Rachel Hadas

The Impossible Marriage

Donald Hall

Spelunking

Lola Haskins

Letter to Miss Dickinson

William Heyen

The Unnaming

Edward Hirsch

For Emily Dickinson

Patricia Y. Ikeda

Amherst: One Day, Five Poets: Part II

Shirley Kaufman

Emily Dickinson Leaves a Message to the World, Now That Her Homestead in Amherst Has an Answering Machine

X. J. Kennedy

The Deconstruction of Emily Dickinson

Gallway Kinnell

Still Life with Riddle

Tom Koontz

After the Poetry Reading

Maxine Kumin

Emily Dickinson's Sestina for Molly Bloom

Barbara F. Lefcowitz

When I Read a Review of the John Travolta Film, Michael

Lyn Lifshin

Emily Dickinson

Michael Longley

In the Flesh

Lee McCarthy

The Most Emily of All

Medbh McGuckian

In and Come In

Archibald MacLeish

The Path Between Houses

Jay Meek

Emily Dickinson in Hell

Peter Meinke

A Love Poem for Emily Dickinson

Bruce Meyer

Emily's Words

Leslie Monsour

HD/ED

Aife Murray

Emily Dickinson's Defunct

Marilyn Nelson

Emily

Peter Nicholson

Emily in Choir

Kathleen Norris

``Half-Cracked Poetess,''

Joyce Carol Oates

Emily Dickinson's Writing Table in Her Bedroom at the Homestead, Amherst Mass

Sharon Olds

Frowning at Emily

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

for Emily (Dickinson)

Maureen Owen

[Most sensual of recluses]

Ron Padgett

Emily Dickinson

Linda Pastan

Because I Could Not Dump

Andrea Paterson

Desire

Molly Peacock

Feathered Friends

Robert Peters

Emily Dickinson's Ankle

John Reinhard

Emily Dickinson's Mirror, Amherst

Donald Revell

``I Am in Danger---Sir---,''

Adrienne Rich

The Houses of Emily Dickinson

Larry Rubin

The Upper Story

Mary Jo Salter

Emily Dickinson

Gary Smith

Emily Dickinson Reading Walt Whitman

Barton Levi St. Armand

Emily

William Stafford

Lithograph of Amherst

Lynn Strongin

Lost and Found

Mark Vinz

Between the Lines

Theodore Weiss

Altitudes

Richard Wilbur

To Dickinson

Diane Williams

To Emily Dickinson

Yvor Winters

Emily Dickinson at Coleville

Harold Witt

Visiting Emily Dickinson

Charles Wright

Emily Dickinson, Bismarck and the Roadrunner's Inquiry

Ray Young Bear

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