Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!

Feast in the Ober/Alexander Reading Room

Digitally restored daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, 1847
Image: Wikimedia Commons

This week, we celebrate Emily Dickinson’s 183rd birthday. What better way to celebrate the poet than by baking her famous Black Cake? A group of Charlottesville poets-turned-bakers let us join them for their “Fourth Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Party.”

Lilia Fuquen takes us to the party.

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