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“This is my Letter to the World” . . .
the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson
is the featured program at the Wake
Forest Library tomorrow night, Thursday,
April 20, at 6:30 p.m. presented by the
Friends of Wake Forest Public Library.
It is a fitting program since April is
National Poetry Month.
The program speaker will be
Anne G. Flick of Wake Forest, a
Dickinson scholar who teaches a class –
Emily Dickinson, a Voice for the Future
– each January at Stetson University in
DeLand, Fla., and who has taught a class
on Dickinson for the National
Elderhostel program for 17 years. Flick,
who has a library degree from Emory
University, was a university librarian
and was the curator of the Flannery
O’Connor Collection at Georgia College
and State University from 1982 to 1983.
Now retired, she and her husband, Carl,
have lived in Wake Forest for four
years.
Flick says that Dickinson,
who lived from 1830 to 1886, is probably
more widely known now than ever before.
There are many myths: that she was a
recluse who suffered from unrequited
love, that she never wrote a poem about
the Civil War though she lived during
that time. Thursday night’s program will
be a time to discover how the research
about Dickinson has changed over the
years and enjoy the many varieties of
poetry that flowed from her pen.
At the close of the program,
there will be a drawing for the book
“Emily Dickinson’s Gardens: a
celebration of a poet and gardener” by
Marta McDowell.
Space is limited; please
call the library at 554-8498 to sign up. |
