Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson: How to Tell the Truth with A Slant

Updated from the August 9, 2018, Litchatte “Poetry Workshop” Posting  (Reprinted due to current relevance) In 2020 and 2021, ex-President Donald Trump told his supporters that he won the presidential

imagine by John Lennon

Imagining the Lyrical Poetry of John Lennon & Emily Dickinson

Traditionally, the term, ‘Lyrical’ referred to a composition of words that were meant to have a musical accompaniment.  When we think about ‘Lyrical Poetry” now, it more broadly refers to

A Pallette of Litchatte Posts

A Pallatte of Litchatte Posts from July 2016 through July 2017

  Dr. Murray Ellison received a Master’s in Education from Temple University (1973), a Master’s Degree of Arts in English Literature from Virginia Commonwealth University (2015), and a Doctorate in

Rare Emily Dickinson Exhibit at the Morgan Museum

“Who has not found the heavens below will fail to find it above. God’s residence is next to mine. His furniture is love,” wrote America’s most enigmatic poet, Emily Dickinson.

Murray at the Emily Dickinson Museum

I’m Nobody! Who Are You? : Muhammed Ali and Emily Dickinson

Muhammad Ali was buried today in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. The Mayor reported that about 100,000 people lined the streets to view the nineteen-mile long procession. Millions of people

Letters to the World: Murray’s Poetry Workshop

The writing prompt for my (LLIChesterfield.org) Poetry Workshop was to use Emily Dickinson’s untitled Letter to the World poem as an inspiration: Here is Emily’s short poem: This is my