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Jennifer Tappenden introduces poetry to the public one poem at a time

Poetry is a hard sell. It has the rap of being difficult, of being inaccessible, of being something only other poets read. No one knows this better than Jennifer Tappenden, a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of...

UMSL lecture tells of poet Emily Dickinson’s surprising Irish wake

When the famously reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left specific directives for a funeral rich in Irish Catholic motifs – shocking her family and friends. The University of Missouri–St. Louis will present, “Emily Dickinson’s Irish Wake,” from...

UMSL lecture tells of poet Emily Dickinson’s surprising Irish wake

When the famously reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left specific directives for a funeral rich in Irish Catholic motifs – shocking her family and friends. The University of Missouri–St. Louis will present, “Emily Dickinson’s Irish Wake,” from...

UMSL lecture tells of poet Emily Dickinson’s surprising Irish wake

When the famously reclusive American poet Emily Dickinson died in 1886, she left specific directives for a funeral rich in Irish Catholic motifs – shocking her family and friends. The University of Missouri–St. Louis will present, “Emily Dickinson’s Irish Wake,” from...

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