Jennifer Militello

Jennifer Militello was born in New York City in 1972, and grew up in Rhode Island. She received a BA from the University of New Hampshire, an MFA from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and a PhD at Bath Spa

Endangered Ghazal with Telegram and Natural World

by Jennifer Militello (b. 1972)

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How many sidewalks with hardly a crack stop

grasses in their tracks, how many reefs along wrecks stop

recovering once bleached. How many sadnesses indicate

true north. How many creatures dying back stop

feeding and lie still. Water moving against

its reflection-skin, shifting a beached humpback. Stop-

signed old avenues exchange heaves. Freezing points

breathe and hurricanes crush and those with kickbacks stop

stopping it. Tornado sirens as light flecks mold-like along

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When was the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry published?

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In 1890, four years after her death. The edition was largely expurgated and edited to fit the poetic conventions of the time. Further editions came closer to her original style; her distinctive dashes were included in the 1955 edition edited by Thomas H. Johnson.

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