Unlikely Places

Are You Writing For An Audience Or Authenticity?

What Emily Dickinson’s fictitious life teaches about fame

Justin Cox
4 min readMar 18, 2021

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Photo from the TV show Dickinson
Source: Apple; edited by the author

I didn’t know much about Emily Dickinson until recently. I’m sure we studied her poems in high school, but poetry was never my strong suit. As such, knowledge of the American poet escaped the folds of my brain.

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