Editorial Note

This is an exciting time for Dickinson studies, as I hope we demonstrate in the two clusters of work presented in this issue. First, Dickinson becomes ever more a poet of international stature and interest. Included in this issue are contributions from Quebec, Germany, Poland, and Russia, and a review of a French book. This broadly international contribution anticipates the 2007 Emily Dickinson International Society conference in Kyoto, Japan, "Like Fabrics of the East" (see the Call for Papers, page 109).

This issue also contains the Journal's first cumulative review essay on Dickinson scholarship. As Jennifer Leader states in this review, Dickinson's prominence in books on topics as diverse as Helen Vendler's Poets Thinking and Adam Sweeting's Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer demonstrates her centrality not just to the study of poetry but of American culture. Books with a primary focus on Dickinson have also flourished recently, as indicated by the several reviews included in this issue.

More news relates to the forthcoming fall issue of the Journal, which will feature contemporary poets' responses to Dickinson. This cluster of responses ranges from brief statements about poems written on Dickinson to contemplative reflections on particular Dickinson poems or aspects of her poetic. Among the poets contributing to the issue are Rae Armantraut, Alice Fulton, Brenda Hillman,Susan Howe, Maxine Kumin, Steve McCaffrey, Bob Perelman, Michael Ryan,Alicia Ostriker, and Susan Stewart. This issue's essay by Quebec poet Pierre Nepveu and review of French poet and Dickinson translator Claire Malroux's recent book anticipate the fall issue's greater concentration of poets' voices.

The newest of the news is that the Emily Dickinson Journal will be moving this summer from Pomona College to SUNY Buffalo, where I have taken a position as the Edward H. Butler Chair and Chair of the English Department. I would like to express here my deep gratitude to Pomona College for its support of the Journal over the past year and a half and to Andrea Brown for her exceptional abilities in facilitating the Journal's move from Case Western Reserve to Pomona and in producing the past three issues. Andrea has also had a major hand in the planning and execution of the fall 2006 special issue. Thank you.