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The inimitable Grant Snider strikes again, with the day jobs of famous poets – including Jack Kerouac (railroad worker), Charles Bukowski (mailman), Emily Dickinson (cat-keeper), and T. S. Eliot (bank clerk.)

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Amherst College digitizes scraps of paper on which Emily Dickinson scribbled her poetry.

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Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress, photographed by Annie Leibovitz

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Lovely animated adaptation of Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Started Early – Took My Dog,” second only to Dickinson’s poetry set to song.

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind –

Emily Dickinson, hand-lettered.

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 –

Emily Dickinson, hand-lettered.

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Emily Dickinson’s poetry, in hand-lettered illustrations by artist David Clemesha

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Amherst College archivists uncover a new daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, only the third known photograph of the celebrated writer in existence.

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There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson, quoted in Anna Quindlen’s How Reading Changed My Life.