Meeting Our Past Selves on the Page

Making sense of the work of growth and revision

Dear Friends,

A curious thing happened as I prepared to teach last weekend’s Poetry Today Zoom. I went through my files looking for the notes on Dickinson I’ve gathered over the years. And, lo, I discovered an essay I (apparently) wrote in 2014—a decade ago—on public perceptions of Dickinson. At the time, I was responding to the discovery of a second pho…