“Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet,” professors Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell state in the opening sentence of their introduction to their new edition of The Letters ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A new edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence co-edited by a University at Buffalo literary scholar offers a transformative portrait of the famous American poet that takes readers ...

Love letters — specifically, dead love letters that never quite connect with their addressees and maybe aren't meant to — are having a moment. Eve Babitz's 1977 book Slow Days, Fast Company — an essay ...

Some people text, some e-mail, but there's almost nothing better than getting an actual letter in the mail, especially if it's a letter poem. "A letter poem is when you're addressing someone else," ...

And let them drop down on my knee to-night. This said, . . . he wished to have me in his sight Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring To come and touch my hand . . . a simple thing, Yet I wept ...

Everyone generalizes about me, so let me tell you who I really am. I’m a woman by soul, if not exactly body. My parents made a mistake, but not my God eternal. I do everything I can to not look ...

What would an acorn write to an oak tree? Or a coat to her button? A child to his toes? A pebble to the river? Dear Acorn, (Love, Oak) is a new... Letter poems to friends — of all kinds — in 'Dear ...