Emily Dickinson is one of America’s most widely read and beloved poets. Her letters are not as well known, but equally astonishing. In this September 2017 podcast, Fermat’s board member Ayeshah Emon reads a selection of Dickinson’s letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a prominent editor who in 1862 asked for young writers to submit works to The Atlantic Monthly.
Dr. Ayeshah Emon is a medical anthropologist with a love for arts, especially music and theater. She has been involved in street theater since her teenage years and is trained in Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. She has directed and produced Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, and brought the South Asian Sisters’ production of Yoni Ki Baat (Womyn of Color Vagina Monologues) to UW-Madison in 2008, where she worked as performer, producer and director for the next six years. She has performed with the UW Undergraduate Theatre Association and The Theatre for Change-Galway. She is proud to be a member of Fermat’s Last Theater Company’s board.