Just Ourselves and Immortality: Emily Dickinson's Birthday Celebration

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EVERY YEAR, the Folger Shakespeare Library honors the birthday of Emily Dickinson, the poet whose reclusive lifestyle and creative use of the dash (among other things) have accorded her a place in the American pantheon of poets.

This year, poet Elizabeth Spires will read from her own work and that of Dickinson, and she'll join the audience at a wine reception for a cake baked from Dickinson's own recipe.

How can you resist? Poetry AND cake!

» Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 E. Capitol St. SE; Mon., Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., $12; 202-675-0344. (Capitol South)