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The queens talk break-up poetry in a special post-Valentine's Day extravaganza!
You can see Poem 225 (“I’m ‘wife’ – I’ve finished that”) in Dickinson’s handwriting here
Di mentions her essay, “Divine is Mine: Poetry’s Reckless Declarations,” which appears in The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics, edited by Diane Lockward and published in 2018 by Terrapin Books. Take a gander here.
You can read Poem 620 (“Much Madness is divinest Sense —”) here, and see her manuscript version (in her handwriting) here.
You can read Poem 372 (“After great pain, a formal feeling comes—”) here, and see her manuscript version (in her handwriting) here.
Read Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Flying” here. And watch Gilbert give a reading (though not from this poem) here.
Read Diane Seuss’s “Love Letter,” originally published in River Mouth Review, here
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The queens talk break-up poetry in a special post-Valentine's Day extravaganza!
You can see Poem 225 (“I’m ‘wife’ – I’ve finished that”) in Dickinson’s handwriting here
Di mentions her essay, “Divine is Mine: Poetry’s Reckless Declarations,” which appears in The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics, edited by Diane Lockward and published in 2018 by Terrapin Books. Take a gander here.
You can read Poem 620 (“Much Madness is divinest Sense —”) here, and see her manuscript version (in her handwriting) here.
You can read Poem 372 (“After great pain, a formal feeling comes—”) here, and see her manuscript version (in her handwriting) here.
Read Jack Gilbert’s “Failing and Flying” here. And watch Gilbert give a reading (though not from this poem) here.
Read Diane Seuss’s “Love Letter,” originally published in River Mouth Review, here

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