March 1

In literary history

• 1862The Springfield Daily Republican printed a short poem titled 'The Sleeping,' no contributor named. It was Emily Dickinson. She published fewer than a dozen poems in her lifetime; the box containing nearly 1,800 others was found in her bedroom after she died.

Writers born on March 1

• Lytton Strachey (1880),
• Ralph Ellison (1913),
• Robert Lowell (1917)

The Daily Canon for March 1

Othello by William Shakespeare (1604).