Today’s post is a short one to highlight the Morgan’s online exhibitions, some of which could be useful for literature instructors, particularly as we continue to exclusively teach online during this pandemic. I’m not teaching this semester but, if I were, I would be thinking about ways to teach poetry without the communal reading experience the classroom provides. 

One of the Morgan’s offerings is part of a 2017 exhibition on Emily Dickinson, who is probably my favorite poet to teach. The online exhibitions can be found here: https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/online/emily-dickinson. I would have students read or listen to the poems in the slideshow outside of class and then write about their experience encountering one of the poems.