Poet · Amherst, MA · 1830–1886

Wrote nearly 1,800 poems and published fewer than a dozen in her lifetime, most of them altered without her consent. Sewed her work into hand-bound packets and left the rest on envelope flaps and shopping lists. Her dashes are still the loudest punctuation in the language.

In the public domain. We print her as she wrote her, dashes and capitals intact.