A poet who took definition as her province, Emily Dickinson challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet's work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in order to f...

To be a poet was the sole ambition of Emily Dickinson. She achieved what she called her immortality by total commitment to the task, allowing nothing to deter her or intervene. Contrary to the myth that she would not deign to publish her verse, she made...

To be a poet was the sole ambition of Emily Dickinson. She achieved what she called her immortality by total commitment to the task, allowing nothing to deter her or intervene. Contrary to the myth that she would not deign to publish her verse, she made...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 I Felt A Funeral In My Brain This is a five-stanza poem on the nature of mental anguish. The poet conveys a sense of the mental pain which is torturing her by speaking of the pain as if it were a...

A district judge has ordered Akeem Washington to stand trial on charges he slashed his ex-girlfriend's throat. The woman, who survived the alleged attack, told her story in court Monday. Paula Perez says she repeatedly told Akeem Washington that their relationship was over in...