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Join us for a full year’s worth of Emily Dickinson inspired events and programs.
2008 Program Schedule
Sunday, March 2, 2 p.m. (snow date: March 16)
Kinsmen of the Shelf
The Brownings: Selected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Reading / Discussion group
Leader: Cornelia Pearsall
Location: Jones Library, Amherst Room
Free
Cornelia Pearsall, is an Associate Professor of English at Smith College. She teaches a range of courses on Victorian and Modern literature and culture. Her book Tennyson’s Rapture is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and she is completing another book, titled Imperial Tennyson, on the centrality of
the poet laureate to late Victorian imperial expansion. She currently serves on the boards of Women’s Studies and the Poetry Center at Smith College.
Contact Nan Fischlein, Program Coordinator, 413/542-2034 or nfischlein@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Tuesday, March 25, 7 p.m. (snow date: March 27)
“Emily Dickinson and the Brownings: A Triad of Poets”
Replenishing the Shelves Lecture Series
Speaker: Vincent F. Petronella
Location: Amherst Woman’s Club, Triangle Street, Amherst
Fee: No charge, but donation appreciated
Dr. Vincent Petronella is a seminar leader for Beacon Hill Seminars in Boston. He teaches courses in Shakespeare, the poetry of the Brownings and John Keats, the Fiction of Hawthorne, Melville, and the plays of George Bernard Shaw. He has published numerous articles on these topics, lectures frequently, is a board member for the Beacon Hill Seminars, and past president of the Boston Browning Society. His forthcoming essay in the Browning Society Notes (published by the London Browning Society 2008) is entitled:Robert Browning’s Poetry and the Italian Risorgimento.
Contact Nan Fischlein, Program Coordinator, 413/542-2034 or nfischlein@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Replenishing the Shelves
The Emily Dickinson Museum seeks to recreate the Dickinson family libraries at the Homestead and The Evergreens--those treasures the poet called “The strongest Friends of the Soul.” Click the Replenishing the Shelves link for full information and the current book list.
Friday, March 28, Noon-2 p.m.
Poetry Discussion Group monthly meeting
Bruce Penniman, educator, recently retired from English Department at Amherst High School
Location TBA
Fee ($10/session; advance registration required)
Monthly discussion of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
Contact Cindy Dickinson, Director of Interpretation and Programming, 413/542/8429 or csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Sunday, April 6, 4 p.m.
“I told my Soul to sing”: A Reading from Galway Kinnell's Favorite Poems, including Dickinson's and some of his own.
Speaker: Galway Kinnell
Converse Hall, Amherst College Campus
Free
Galway Kinnell will read a selection of his favorite poems, including work by Dickinson, as well as some of his own work. A reception and booksigning will follow. This program celebrates National Poetry Month.
Kinnell counts among his earliest influences the poetry of Emily Dickinson. A He has served as poet-in-residence at numerous colleges and universities and divides his time between Vermont and New York City, where he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.
Contact Cindy Dickinson, Director of Interpretation and Programming, 413/542/8429 or csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Monday, April 21, 4 p.m.
"A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade"
Speaker:Christopher Benfey
Location: Emily Dickinson Museum
Free
Celebrate the release of Christopher Benfey’s latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds. Benfey maps the intricate web of friendship, family, and romance that connected Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade, all of whom found themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of strict restraint and the new romantic, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all. Benfey unveils how, through the art of these great thinkers, the hummingbird became the symbol of an era, an image through which they could explore their controversial ideas of nature, religion, sexuality, family, time, exoticism, and beauty, all which would come to shape American thought.
Contact Cindy Dickinson, Director of Interpretation and Programming, 413/542/8429 or csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Friday, April 25, Noon-2 p.m.
Poetry Discussion Group monthly meeting
Anne Flick
Location TBA
Fee ($10/session; advance registration required)
Contact Cindy Dickinson, Director of Interpretation and Programming, 413/542/8429 or csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Friday, April 25, 4:30-6 p.m.
A reading and interview; part of the Juniper Festival (April 25-26)
Location: Emily Dickinson Museum
Free>
Contact: Juniper Festival
[more information forthcoming from the Juniper Festival]
Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m.
Kinsmen of the Shelf
The Brownings: Selected Poems of Robert Browning
Reading / Discussion group
Leader: Cornelia Pearsall
Location: Amherst College Alumni House
Free
Cornelia Pearsall, is an Associate Professor of English at Smith College. She teaches a range of courses on Victorian and Modern literature and culture. Her book Tennyson’s Rapture is forthcoming from Oxford University Press, and she is completing another book, titled Imperial Tennyson, on the centrality of the poet laureate to late Victorian imperial expansion. She currently serves on the boards of Women’s Studies and the Poetry Center at Smith College.
Contact Nan Fischlein, Program Coordinator, 413/542-2034 or nfischlein@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Thursday, May 1, 5-7 p.m.
Amherst Art Walk
Open House at the Museum
Free
Contact Donna Abelli, Development and Marketing Manager, 413/542/5084 or dmabelli@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Sunday, May 4, 3:00 p.m.
WORLD PREMIERE "The Musical Muse"
Composer, Gweneth Walker
The Holyoke Civic Symphony
The Forum at Holyoke Community College
Admission is $10 adults,$5 children
proceeds benefit Holyoke Civic Symphony
David Kidwell, Music Director and Conductor
Susan Snively, narrator
I This is My Letter
II A Light Exists in Spring
III I'm Nobody!
IV Wild Nights
Thursday, May 8, 7:30 p.m.
“Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman, The Mother and Father of American Poetry”
A Program with Susan Kinsolving and Jack Gilpin
Location: Amherst Woman’s Club
Fee: $15 adults, $5 students/youth in advance; $18 adults, $8 students/youth at door
*Advance reservations recommended
In this lively and entertaining program, poet Susan Kinsolving and actor Jack Gilpin bring the words of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to life as they explore why both poets rightly deserve their titles as The Mother and Father of American Poetry. Through selected themes, Kinsolving and Gilpin compare and contrast Dickinson and Whitman. Both poets independently broke with the tradition of English poetry to create innovative, provocative, and prolific work. They originated American poetry and still influence it today.
Contact Nan Fischlein, Program Coordinator, 413/542-2034 or nfischlein@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
Saturday, May 17, 1 p.m.
Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk (1 p.m.)
Poetry Walk Open House (3-5 p.m.)
Begins at the Museum
Free
The Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk, held each year on the Saturday closest to the poet’s May 15 death, stops at historic spots in Amherst significant to Dickinson and incorporates readings of about thirty of her poems.
The Poetry Walk begins at the Museum (280 Main Street) at 1 p.m. Some of the stops along the route include the Amherst Train Station, the Amherst History Museum and the site of Dickinson’s girlhood home on North Pleasant Street. Readers this year include 24 teachers from Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden, and Worcester Counties who have participated in a year-long workshop, sponsored by the Museum, about teaching Emily Dickinson. Walkers are encouraged to join the procession at any point. Everyone will be given an opportunity to read at West Cemetery on Triangle Street, where the Walk concludes at 2:30 p.m. An Open House follows at the Museum from 3-5 p.m.
Contact Cindy Dickinson, Director of Interpretation and Programming, 413/542/8429 or csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org
MORE TO COME
“my Verse is alive”
Due to the overwhelming response the Emily Dickinson Museum will be extending this unique exhibit that explores the tangled private and public motives of several figures closely associated with Emily Dickinson as they struggled for control of her poetic legacy. The roles of her siblings Lavinia and Austin, sister-in-law Susan and niece Martha are examined as well as that of Lavinia’s friend and Austin’s mistress Mabel Loomis Todd, a central figure in achieving initial publication of Dickinson’s poetry.
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