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Reading and writing poetry, which is anchored in patterns of words, images, sounds and forms, is particularly well suited for people with autism.
Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
Rachel Hadas says that despite the cascade of scary news, humans will adapt, as they always have – and provides evidence of that resilience in the literature she loves and teaches.
Hope does not ride alone. It has a companion: anxiety. A classics scholar who is a poet notes that, at what may be the end of a long and dark pandemic year, both are in evidence.
190 years after her birth, Dickinson’s life reminds us of how to confront the depths of loss with courage and hope.
Women have been there in their imaginations.
A Quiet Passion, a film about Emily Dickinson’s life, opens in cinemas this week. Dickinson wrote 1789 poems in her lifetime: only ten were published.
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Lecturer, Université de Lille
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Assistant Teaching Professor of English, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Literacy, Mississippi State University
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James J. Stansell Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University
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Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
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Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University
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Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University
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Graduate Researcher, Anthropology, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in English, La Trobe University
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Associate Lecturer in Literary Studies, Western Sydney University
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Tracey Banivanua Mar Fellow, La Trobe University