With more than 1800 poems, American poet Emily Dickinson's words live on through an especially large breadth of musical works!
Composers like Aaron Copland, George Walker, Eric Whitacre and Gwyneth Walker set Dickinson's poems to music. We'll hear a different musical setting every day this week.
Her writing didn't follow literary conventions; she often used dashes rather than periods and commas and capitalized words in the middles of sentences.
Our good friend Sara Hartley helped us make this week of Kids Commute. She read the Emily Dickinson poems that you'll hear on each episode of the show.
Want to learn more about Emily Dickinson? You can take a virtual tour of her house!
You can also listen to a lot more musical settings of Emily Dickinson's poems in the on-demand playlist below.
This week's Kids Commute episodes were produced with support from Delia Zaleski, Emily Duncan Wilson, Amanda Sewell and Joseph Levesque.
Our special thanks to our Emily Dickinson, Sara Hartley!
