I've been waiting for a chance to talk about an Emily Dickinson poem on the podcast, and no one better to do it with than my friend Johanna Winant [https://english.wvu.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-directory/johanna-winant]. She chose "My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun — [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52737/my-life-had-stood-a-loaded-gun-764]" for our conversation. (If you're curious, you can find an image of Dickinson's manuscript here [https://www.edickinson.org/editions/2/image_sets/12170834].) Johanna is an assistant professor in the Department of English at West Virginia University, where she works on transatlantic modernism, twentieth-century American literature, philosophy and literature, and transhistorical poetry and poetics. She is completing a book manuscript with the working title "Lyric Logic: American Modernism and the Problem of Induction," and her articles and reviews have appeared in James Joyce Quarterly, Paideuma, Journal of Modern LIterature, Modernism/modernity, and elsewhere. You can follow Johanna on Twitter [https://twitter.com/johannawinant]. As ever, please follow, rate, and review the podcast if you like what you hear, and share an episode with a friend. Subscribe to my Substack [https://kamranjavadizadeh.substack.com/], and you'll get (eventually!) a newsletter to go with each episode.