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 My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close If we follow the syntax to Emily Dickinson's best poetry carefully, it reveals itself with a direct simplicity. The first stanza of this poem raises a doubt as to whether a "third event" (the...

Close in life, close in death Brothers killed in traffic crashes 5 months apart By PETER MALLER pmaller@journalsentinel.com, Journal Sentinel Thursday, March 18, 2004 Mark G. Neuenfeld and Michael Neuenfeld, brothers in their early 30s, were born about a year...