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    Need something to do today? Here’s six hours of Emily Dickinson for your listening pleasure.

    Emily Temple
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    December 10, 2021, 1:12pm

    Today is Emily Dickinson’s birthday (her 191st, if anyone’s counting), which is as good a day as any to revisit her poetry. If you’ve got your hands full, you can even have it read to you—via this all-day marathon reading of Emily Dickinson’s works, which was staged by the Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress in 2014. Hey, you could find a worse soundtrack for puttering around the house on this pandemic Friday. Start with Part 1 here:

    Emily Dickinson Library of Congress poetry

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