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 Temple

Emily Temple

Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.