Christopher Merrill: Tell It Slant—Notes from the Writing University
The renowned poet, journalist, and director of the International Writing Program on creating and preserving "spaces for truth telling."
By Christopher Merrill
I keep returning to a poem that Emily Dickinson wrote sometime between 1858 and 1865. This was a decisive period in American history, echoes of which regularly sound today, and this poem, conceived in a time of bitter division, when it was difficult to sort out the truth among…
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