Tim Carmichael
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Tim is an Appalachian poet and cookbook author. He writes about rural life, family, and the places he grew up around. His poetry and essays have appeared in Bloodroot and Coal Dust, his latest book.
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The Locked Drawer of Emily Dickinson
For as long as I’ve been writing, Emily Dickinson has been a guiding star. Her clipped intensity, her fierce quiet, her way of saying what others circle around—I’ve spent years trying to write like that, trying to listen the way she must have listened. So, the story of how her poems nearly vanished before the world ever saw them has always struck me as not just literary history, but personal.
By Tim Carmichael8 months ago in Fiction
The Solitude of Emily Dickinson
In the upstairs bedroom of a large white house in Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson lived most of her adult life, unseen by many and misunderstood by nearly all. She was not a ghost, though some neighbors suspected she might be one. She was not a saint, though her letters held a kind of quiet gospel. She was not crazy, as some whispered after she stopped attending church or appearing at town functions. She was simply herself—fiercely private, deeply observant, and impossible to categorize.
By Tim Carmichael8 months ago in Fiction
