Emily Dickinson Of Visitors--the fairest-- For Occupation--This

Emily Dickinson

• Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in possibility"
• Shawn Walker & Al Filreis discuss "I dwell in Possibility" (audio)
• biographical profile
• headnote to Dickinson (Norton, pp. 44-46)
• Dickinson poems numbered #214, 632, 1129 (Norton, pp. 47-53)
• Dickinson #556
• poetic terms: meter | line | foot | iamb | couplet | ballad meter | assonance
  supplemental/optional readings:
• Dickinson online archive

Walt Whitman and some Whitmanians

• headnote to Walt Whitman (Norton, pp. 19-22)
• Whitman, Song of Myself, cantos 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 14, 47, 52 (Norton, pp. 22-35)
• Whitman, "The Sleepers"

  Walt Whitman, country bumpkin? --from Leaves of Grass

• Whitman, "I Sing the Body Electric"
• poetic term: repetition
• Allen Ginsberg, "A Supermarket in California"
• audio: Ginsberg reads "A Supermarket in California" (courtesy "The Listening Booth")
• video: Ginsberg reads "A Supermarket in California" (courtesy Best Minds/The Museum of American Poetics)
• Ginsberg, "America"
• Ginsberg performs "America"
• Ginsberg, "Sphincter"
• William Carlos Williams, "Danse Russe"
• video: Williams, "Smell!"
• audio: Williams reading "Smell!"
• audio: Al Filreis & Shawn Walker discuss Williams's "Danse Russe" (mp3)
• Williams, "Catholic Bells"
• audio: Williams reading "Catholic Bells"
• Whitman's working-class hero from Guthrie to Springsteen
• Guillaume Appolinaire, "There Is"
  supplemental/optional readings:
• Henry Miller, from Tropic of Cancer
• Whitman, "To a Pupil"
• Walt Whitman as remembered by the radical "Mother Bloor"
• Walt Whitman's style according to communist critic Samuel Sillen in 1955
• "The Poetry of Barbarism" by George Santayana, partly about Whitman

Dickinson (again) and some Dickinsonians

the sentence

"Oh yes, the sentence," Robert Creeley once told the critic Burton Hatlen, "that's what we call it when we put someone in jail."

• Emily Dickinson, poems numbered 303, 341 (Norton, p. 48-49)
• Dickinson, poems numbered 1695, 1705
• Dickinson's "I taste a liquor never brewed" as edited and anthologized by Oscar Williams
• Oscar Williams, "The Last Supper" (from the anthology Immortal Poems of the English Language edited by Oscar Williams)
• poem numbered 1052
• version of #1052 as it appeared in a 1900 anthology of American poetry
• 1129 and 632
• Whitman according to Dickinson
• Elizabeth Bishop, "Filling Station"
• audio: Elizabeth Bishop reading "Filling Station" (courtesy of The Factory School Library of Recorded Sounds)
• Lorine Niedecker, headnote (Norton)
• Lorine Niedecker, brief biographical profile
• Lorine Niedecker, "[A country's economics sick]"
• John Timpane's review of Niedecker's Collected Works (2003)
• Lorine Niedecker, "You are my friend," "Grandfather advised me"
• Niedecker, "I rose from marsh mud" [wedding poem]
• Niedecker, "Don't tell me property is sacred!"
• Niedecker, from "Switchboard Girl" (1951)
• H.D., "Red Rose and a Beggar"
• Ron Silliman on Dickinson
• Rae Armantrout, "Solid" (performed at the Writers House, October 2000)
• Rae Armantrout, "About"
• Rae Armantrout, "The Way"
• Rae Armantrout discusses "The Way" with Charles Bernstein and reads the poem
• Rae Armantrout reading her own poems through the influence of Dickinson
• Ron Silliamn on Dickinson--Niedecker--Armantrout
• Cid Corman, "It isnt for want"
• Cid Corman reading "It isn't for want" (MP3 file)
• Cid Corman, "Assistant"
• Cid Corman, "Enuresis"
• Cid Corman reads "Enuresis" (audio) ()
• Cid Corman, ["follow the stream"]
• audio recording of a conversation with Cid Corman at the Kelly Writers House, November 19, 2001
• Magdalena Zurawski, from "Ten Imaginary Love Poems for Joan of Arc": "1: "Joan, Never Read or Write"
  supplemental/optional readings:
• Lorine Niedecker, part 9 of "For Paul" (1950)
• new photograph discovered of Emily Dickinson
• audio recording of Lorine Niedecker reading from her poetry in November 1970