Upcoming Events

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Tell It Slant Poetry Festival 2025 Schedule
September 15-21

The annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is an event with international reach that celebrates Emily Dickinson’s poetic legacy and the contemporary creativity she and her work continues to inspire from...

Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon
September 15 – 21

HYBRID PROGRAM - An Emily Dickinson Museum tradition, the Marathon is a group reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson over the course of 7 sessions...
Open Mic - Tell It Slant 2025

Open Mic Night
With Music from Las Lorcas
Friday, Sept. 19, 7pm ET

Bring your poems to Emily Dickinson's garden and enjoy music from Los Lorcas...
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Headliner Night
with Terrance Hayes and Krysten Hill
Saturday, Sept. 20, 7pm ET

National Book Award and MacArthur Genius grantee and Terrance Hayes and award-winning poet Krysten Hill, read from their work and discuss their poetic practice and inspiration with moderator Nicole...
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A Something Overtakes the Mind

(In-Person Art Installation) “Did you ever read one of her Poems backward,” Emily Dickinson wrote on a scrap of wrapping paper, “because the plunge from the front overturned you? I sometimes (often...

Press Release:
Carriage House Opening

On Saturday, May 10, the Emily Dickinson Museum will celebrate the opening of the John and Elizabeth Armstrong Carriage House and the reopening of The Evergreens during its annual Poetry Walk event...
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K-12 Group Visits

Announcing a new program for Middle and High School students: The Power of Poetry. Spark your students' imagination by planning a field trip!...
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Studio Sessions

Spend a “sweet hour” in Emily Dickinson’s creative space where she penned her startling poetry and honed her revolutionary voice...
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Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry Series
Thursday, September 18, 6pm ET

Phosphorescence September 2025 featured poets: Livia Meneghin, Meg Day, and Rajiv Mohabir...
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Collections Database

The Museum’s collection has now been digitized and published for public use for the very first time...
Dickinson's writing desk with pens, scraps of paper and her lamp

Mild Nights!
At the Emily Dickinson Museum

Paid In-Person Program - Evening writing time at the Emily Dickinson Museum...
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Poetry Discussion Group Spring 2025 Series

A lively virtual discussion of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and letters, meeting once a month from February to May...

Press Release:
A Something Overtakes the Mind

On Saturday, May 10, the Emily Dickinson Museum will celebrate the opening of the John and Elizabeth Armstrong Carriage House and the reopening of The Evergreens during its annual Poetry Walk event...