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my MY EMILY DICKINSON Action Figure

Sue (and how ! ) Toys Inc. 1985

MINT in Box ! (from the collection of Melissa Range)

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paper bag Emily Dickinson, puppet, er, poet

made of found paper bag, acrylic gesso, sumi

Sara : Paper bag Emily, are you a recluse?

Paper bag Emily : No, but I am recyclable.

(Double slant rhymes, y'all!)

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I often wonder what Emily Dickinson would have been like had she lived one hundred years later? Would she have gotten a college degree? Found a job in a library? Moved away from Amherst? Would she own a typewriter? Travel to Paris? South America? Would her "gorgeous nothings" have been written on Post-it notes?

One of the most ubiquitous tools of a bookstore employee is the Post-it note. Here are some that I wrote on, stuffed in my pocket, and somehow saved from oblivion. They contain quotes, snatches of ideas for poems or songs, jokes, conversations, etc.

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Bellis perennis : Daisies for Emily Dickinson

musical setting of I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

by the band Duodenum of Appleton, WI

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Black Swan Emily Dickinson

seen at the bottom of my coffee cup and drawn by SMUDGE

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some art I left behind is still hanging at the ol' bookstore where I once worked :

Chipmunk Punk album cover (on left is my version, on right is copy by a co-worker, Mary)

BOOK WARS jam collage with Natalie and Bob, featuring Emily Dickinson, Danielle Steel, James Patterson, Stephen King, Nicholas Sparks, Julia Child, and Brett Favre

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Emily Dickinsons found at the bottom of my coffee cup

(and one re-do of the Scream biscotti for Kate)

Sumi and stamps on paper

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Emily Dickinson graffiti tagging with chalk

(for Keith Haring)

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The Good Book Every Sunday :

Emily Dickinson Murder Mystery / Romance paperbacks edition

(from our personal Emily Dickinson book collection, in Appleton, WI)

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Emily Dickinson knows that Hobos love coffee

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Emily Dickinson cries

mascara running down her cheeks

bottom of coffee cup

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Mermaid Emily Dickinson

bottom of coffee cup

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Emily Dickinson accidental biscotti as Edvard Munch's SCREAM

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Emily Dickinson asleep with her hair loose

bottom of coffee cup

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Emily Dickinson wants you ... to play with your food !

Emily's Bell Pepper B-52 hairdo, with faux paper-plate ruff collar

medium : bell pepper cut, then re-shaped with teeth

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The Good Book Every Sunday :

The Emily DickinZINE - Vol. 9 / no. 1

It is always interesting to print up a Zine. I like to hold a physical copy, whether or not I can get them into other hands.

I had no idea that this one wanted to be printed in Black & White. Printing imposes a margin of about an eighth of an inch, which cut off some image and text. I went back and inked in what was missing.

A day or so passed before the Zines asked me for some spot coloring (adding in the process some unintentional Emilies). As an artist, I enjoy making multiples that are identical and yet not, because of the slightly ajar embellishments that hand fixes will make. Each one looks alike, but each is unique. Only seven copies made.

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Like Emily Dickinson's fascicles, I don't know what is going on here. This one is part commonplace book, part first draft, part final draft, part new poems, part translation, part news headlines, part dog-walk journal, part sketchbook, part art object.

(images are cover, endpapers and center spread)

The Emily DickinZINE : vol. 9 / no. 1

Poetry Month edition , April, 2025

(cover, endpapers and center spread)