The Slave Is Gone celebrates what works and breaks down what doesn’t in the risk-taking, award-winning, and popular series Dickinson. Sex and consent, queerness and desire, ambition and repression, race and cultural appropriation — and poems that inspire. It’s all in The Slave Is Gone.
Hosted by 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown and 2020 Cave Canem book award-winner Brionne Janae, with pathbreaking Dickinson scholar Aífe Murray, The Slave Is Gone is infused with the insights, intelligence and humor of poets, scholars, and critics who explore and explode the poetry of Emily Dickinson and its context.
AppleTV+’s Dickinson has so many people discovering and rediscovering Emily Dickinson — her life, her poems, her world. It’s a series that’s fun and at times outrageous, that boldly presents Dickinson’s poetry and plays freely with her time and ours. The Slave Is Gone explores the emotional and historical truths of the series, and keeps the conversation going.
Sex and consent, queerness and desire, ambition and repression, class and caste, race and cultural appropriation — as well as the poems that continue to intrigue, attract, and inspire. It’s all in The Slave Is Gone.
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