Thursday Poetry Post: Emily Dickinson Came to Earth and Then She Left

stupid threatening letters cannot affect a poet

For the last several weeks, I’ve been receiving spam messages on Instagram from a “gothic jewelry ambassador program.” All these missives have some variation on the same phrasing; bewilderingly, they all remark on “my passion for gothic style.” Maybe it’s hard to tell through the newsletter, but I…well, I don’t really maintain anything close to a goth l…