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Ada Limón

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ADA LIMÓN grew up in Glen Ellen and Sonoma, California. A graduate of New York University's MFA Creative Writing Program, she has received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and won the Chicago Literary Award for Poetry. She is the author of three books of poetry, Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press, 2006) , This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions, 2007) , and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Editions, 2010) . She is currently at work on a novel, a book of essays, and a new collection of poems.

Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant...