Read-along
The Dickinson Read-along
Tell it slant.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 10 December
- Length
- Length 21 days
- Open to
- Open to everyone
Twenty-one of Emily Dickinson's poems, one a day for three weeks, arced from the world outside her window to the country of her own mind to the last things.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
Day by day
- Day 1. A Bird, came down the WalkEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 2. These are the days when Birds come backEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 3. I taste a liquor never brewedEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 4. A narrow Fellow in the GrassEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 5. A Route of EvanescenceEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 6. A Light exists in SpringEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 7. There's a certain Slant of lightEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 8. The Brain is wider than the SkyEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 9. I dwell in PossibilityEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 10. The Soul selects her own SocietyEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 11. I'm Nobody! Who are you?Emily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 12. My Life had stood, a Loaded GunEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 13. After great pain, a formal feeling comesEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 14. I felt a Funeral, in my BrainEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 15. Because I could not stop for DeathEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 16. I heard a Fly buzz, when I diedEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 17. Safe in their Alabaster ChambersEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 18. The Bustle in a HouseEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 19. I never saw a MoorEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 20. Apparently with no surpriseEmily Dickinson, 1 min
- Day 21. Tell all the truth but tell it slantEmily Dickinson, 1 min