“I Measure Every Grief I Meet”: A Workshop on Grief Poetry
“I Measure Every Grief I Meet”: A Workshop on Grief Poetry
Emily Dickinson—perhaps the best-known Victorian poet—wrote frequently on death, grief, and mourning as did other poets of the age, from Walt Whitman to Lydia Sigourney, the “Sweet Singer of Hartford.” In this two-hour workshop, we will read and discuss grief poems from Dickinson and many modern and contemporary poets, including W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Lucille […]