The Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Session 1 of 4

Registration for this series is currently full. Please contact luke@bethpl.org if you would like to be placed on a waitlist.

This 4-part workshop will consider a selection of Emily Dickinson's poems. From our discussions, we will be able to deepen our appreciation of her work and better understand why Emily Dickinson is considered by many to be America's preeminent lyric poet. Workshop sessions will not be a series of lectures. Instead we will explore Dickinson’s work through informed discussion among workshop participants.

Please Note: Your registration will automatically sign you up for all 4 sessions.
 

Session #1 - September 13, 2022 - Please read the following poems prior to the session. Page numbers in parentheses refer to the definitive Dickinson collections by Johnson and Franklin respectively.

• Wild Nights – Wild Nights! - (249; 269)

• Tell all the Truth but tell it slant - (1129; 1263)

• I dwell in Possibility - (657; 466)

• A narrow Fellow in the Grass - (986; 1096)

• I like to see it lap the Miles - (585; 383)

• A Route of Evanescence - (1463; 1489)
   

Session #2 - September 20, 2022 - Please read the following poems prior to the session.

• The Tint I cannot take – is best - (627; 696)

• There’s a certain Slant of light, - (258; 320)

• Pain – expands the Time - (967; 833)

• I felt a Cleaving in my Mind - (937; 867)

• The fascinating chill that music leaves - (1480; 1511)

• Because I could not stop for Death - (712; 479)
   

Session #3 - September 27, 2022 - Please read the following poems prior to the session.

• We grow accustomed to the Dark - (419; 428)

• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, - (280; 340)

• I heard a Fly buzz – when I died - (465; 591)
   

Session #4 - October 11, 2022 - Please read the following poems prior to the session.

• I cannot live with You - (640; 706)

• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, by Christopher Marlowe, 1599
   

Jeff Cohen, a Delmar resident, will facilitate the workshop sessions. From 2003 through 2006 Jeff lead similar poetry workshops at Saratoga Springs Public Library. Jeff is a recently retired attorney, whose career spanned private practice and public service.