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Peddling poetry to benefit library; Linda Kelsey has published an Emily Dickinson collection.(NEWS)(Around St. Paul)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20021011
Author:Kimball, Joe

Byline: Joe Kimball; Staff Writer

Actress Linda Kelsey, who portrays Emily Dickinson in the one-woman show "The Belle of Amherst" now on stage at Park Square Theatre, is selling a self-published book of Dickinson's poetry.

Kelsey, an Emmy nominee for her role as a reporter on the television show "Lou Grant," collected 31 poems mentioned in the play for inclusion in the book. That's just a small fraction of the Dickinson oeuvre: she wrote more than 1,700 poems, although only seven were published during her lifetime.

A St. Paul native, Kelsey is donating profits from ...

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