A pen and inkwell sits on Dickinson's writing desk with light cascading through her curtains

Program Partnership Proposals

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Have an idea for a workshop, author’s talk, art exhibition, performance, or other program to take place at, or in conjunction with, the Emily Dickinson Museum?

Please complete the proposal form below to tell us about your idea and how you want to serve and inspire public audiences. 

Programs that are a good fit will realize or help further the Museum’s mission to spark the imagination by amplifying Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice from the place she called home. Before submitting, please familiarize yourself with the Museum’s annual public programs. Proposed programs may be invited to occur as stand-alone events that add to the Museum’s breadth of offerings in a given year, or to be featured as a part of a pre-existing program. Submissions for in-person or virtual programs are welcome.

Timeline: We recommend submitting a proposal at least 1 year in advance of your ideal presentation time. We may not be able to consider programs occurring within a 6-month window from the time of submission. Program submissions are reviewed quarterly. A staff member from the Museum’s program team will respond to you after the submission has been reviewed. 

Regular public programming at the Museum includes:

Annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival (September) & Phosphorescence Contemporary Poetry Series (April-September)

The Museum seeks proposals for these two programs through a separate annual call for submissions each winter. To apply for Phosphorescence or the Festival, wait until this call for submissions has been announced. Please do not use the general form below to express interest in these programs. Current calls for submissions can be found under Upcoming Events. Subscribe to the e-newsletter so you don’t miss the announcement!

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Questions? Email edmprograms@emilydickinsonmuseum.org.


Educator Workshop
Learning from Dickinson’s Letters
Wednesday, December 3, 6:30pm ET

My letter as a bee, goes laden“:
VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Join us for a virtual professional development program for educators exploring Dickinson’s manuscripts. This participatory zoom workshop will provide context and exercises that illuminate Dickinson’s frequently cryptic poetry. Attendees will leave this 90-minute session with new teaching strategies.

Registration is required and is offered on a sliding scale from $5 – $20. Please select the ticket price that is right for you and consider supporting the Museum and the participation of other educators through your purchase. Tickets are non-refundable.

You may request a Professional Development certificate upon registration.

View the full educator workshop lineup.

For any questions, please e-mail edmprograms@emilydickinsonmuseum.org

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graphic Educator Workshop - My letter as a bee, goes laden

Join Cristanne Miller, co-editor of The Letters of Emily Dickinson (2022), for a presentation and workshop on teaching with the poet’s letters. Over 1,000 of Dickinson’s letters have been collected–the earliest sent to her brother Austin at the age of 11 and the last written shortly before her death. This new definitive edition–the first in over 60 years–includes almost 300 previously uncollected letters and more than 200 “letter poems.” Each is newly transcribed, revealing some previous transcription errors and uncovering deliberately omitted material.

The resulting collection paints a portrait of Dickinson as witty, engaging, and deeply connected with her community as well as the literature and events of her day. The letters provide meaningful context to her poems and can also stand alone as rich primary sources. This workshop will begin with an overview of the letters and Q&A with Miller, followed by interactive activities and discussion of select letters with Museum staff.

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Cristanne Miller is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature at University of Buffalo, emerita, where she publishes on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry and culture, including Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar (Harvard University Press, 1987), Reading in Time: Emily DIckinson in the Nineteenth Century (Harvard University Press, 2012), an edition of Dickinson’s complete poems: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them (Harvard University Press, 2016), winner of the MLA Scholarly Edition Prize and translated into Portuguese; and The Letters of Emily Dickinson, co-edited with Domhnall Mitchell (Harvard University Press, 2024), named as a best 10 Books of the year by PBS News Hour, NPR, and the London Review of Books. Miller co-edited the 2022 Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson with Karen Sánchez-Eppler. She serves on the advisory board of the Emily Dickinson Archive, and formerly on the board of the Emily Dickinson International Society.

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Educator Workshop
Dickinson’s Gardens and Volcanoes
Tuesday, November 11, 6:30pm ET

VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Join us for a virtual professional development program for educators exploring Dickinson’s manuscripts. This participatory zoom workshop will provide context and exercises that illuminate Dickinson’s frequently cryptic poetry. Attendees will leave this 90-minute session with new teaching strategies.

Registration is required and is offered on a sliding scale from $5 – $20. Please select the ticket price that is right for you and consider supporting the Museum and the participation of other educators through your purchase. Tickets are non-refundable.

You may request a Professional Development certificate upon registration.

View the full educator workshop lineup.

For any questions, please e-mail edmprograms@emilydickinsonmuseum.org

REGISTER

graphic Educator Workshop - Dickinson’s Gardens and Volcanoes

Join Drs. Cheryl Weaver and Wendy Tronrud, Dickinson scholars who have taught at both the secondary and post-secondary levels, for an interactive professional development workshop on two of Dickinson’s most evocative poetic landscapes–gardens and volcanoes. 

This workshop focuses on how teachers can use pre-reading strategies related to Dickinson’s historical and cultural contexts to support student readers of her poems. Beginning with an overview of how volcanoes and gardens are relevant to aspects of Dickinson’s poetry, Dr. Cheryl Weaver and Dr. Wendy Tronrud will engage participants in particular Dickinson poems, using related pre-reading strategies and introducing writing-to-learn strategies. Workshop participants will leave the session with strategies for use in or adaptable to any literature-related or humanities classrooms.

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Wendy Tronrud is an Assistant Professor of English Education at Queens College, CUNY. She works on the intersection between education, poetry and visual arts across the nineteenth into the twenty-first centuries. She has published essays in Women’s Studies and ESQ in addition to art writing in The Brooklyn Rail and Camera Austria. She has recently co-edited an ESQ triple issue on Thomas Wentworth Higginson with Gerard Holmes. Currently, she is developing a book proposal on volcanoes in the nineteenth century. She is a co-chair of the Emily Dickinson International Society’s pedagogy community. 

Cheryl Weaver teaches IB Language and Literature at City Honors School in Buffalo, NY, United States. Her scholarly interests include nineteenth-century American literature, epistolary practice, and the pragmatics of postal delivery and postal history. She received the 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Graduate Fellowship in support of research related to her dissertation, “‘You know it is customary’: Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Practice.” In 2023, she was awarded the  Margaretta (Happy) Rockefeller Summer Research Fellowship at Historic Hudson Valley. She is a co-chair of the Emily Dickinson International Society’s pedagogy community. 

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Tea with the Dickinsons
An illustrated talk by Executive Director Jane Wald
Saturday, September 20, 3pm ET

HYBRID PROGRAM — in-person at the Emily Dickinson Museum AND streaming live for online registrants

This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL


Tea with the Dickinsons- Tell It Slant 2025Introduced to the European market in the seventeenth-century, trade in tea – and subsequently in coffee and chocolate – became a means of establishing empires and generating the almost frantic consumerism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the West. Emily Dickinson and her family delighted in these exotic imported beverages and, like the rest of New England, acquired the requisite material goods to make and serve tea, coffee, and chocolate in their own family circle and for their guests. This talk will explore the meanings, settings, and equipment for “taking tea” in Emily Dickinson’s world, including original family objects now in the Museum’s collection.
 
An illustrated talk by Emily Dickinson Museum Jane and Robert Keiter Family Executive Director Jane Wald.
 


Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:

Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule

 
Children’s Book Covers - Tell It Slant 2025

Children’s Book Covers
Diving Boards Into Our Imagination
Sunday, September 21, 10am ET

IN-PERSON PROGRAM — at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA

This is a paid program. Registration is required to attend. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL


Children’s Book Covers - Tell It Slant 2025Beginner and experienced poets of all ages are invited to come and use children’s book covers as diving boards into memory and imagination. Children’s books will be on hand to browse, and participants will also be encouraged to search online for their own current or past favorite children’s books. Using one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell & taste), participants will generate drafts of new poems as the vivid literary landscape of rhymes, illustration, and stories of childhood spark memories and new ideas.
 
María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado was born in Puerto Rico & raised in Springfield, MA, and has earned degrees in German, her third language. She writes poems that code-switch between American English, Puerto Rican Spanish, German, & Farsi, the cultural languages of her experiences. Her latest collections include Thought Here Would Cure Me of There (2024) & Resistencia: Resilience (2023). For 20+ years, she has been joyfully facilitating poetry workshops including at the WriteAngles Conference & Mass Poetry Festival. earned degrees in German, her third language. She writes poems that code-switch between American English, Puerto Rican Spanish, German, & Farsi, the cultural languages of her experiences. Her latest collections include Thought Here Would Cure Me of There (2024) & Resistencia: Resilience (2023). For 20+ years, she has been joyfully facilitating poetry workshops including at the WriteAngles Conference & Mass Poetry Festival.


Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:

Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule

 
Poems in the Garden - Tell It Slant 2025

Poems in the Garden
A Poetry Workshop with The WildStory Podcast
Sunday, September 21, 10am ET

IN-PERSON PROGRAM — at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA

This is a paid program. Registration is required to attend. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL


Poems in the Garden - Tell It Slant 2025In a time of ecological crisis and increased disconnection from nature, poets create vital space to honor and reflect upon the natural world, with its joys and its losses. In this generative workshop led by The WildStory Podcast host Ann E. Wallace and featured guest Elizabeth Sylvia, poetry and nature enthusiasts of all ages and experience levels are invited to slow down and open their senses to the natural world—the memories it holds, the meanings it carries, and the feelings it inspires. Participants will engage in writing exercises, learn new strategies, and compose a poem draft during the session.
 
Ann E. Wallace is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Jersey City, NJ and author of two poetry collections: Days of Grace and Silence: A Chronicle of COVID’s Long Haul (Kelsay Books, 2024) and Counting by Sevens (Main Street Rag, 2019). Wallace hosts and produces The WildStory: A Podcast of Poetry and Plants by the Native Plant Society of New Jersey. A poet, memoirist, and illness advocate, she is Professor of English at New Jersey City University.
 
Elizabeth Sylvia lives with her family in Massachusetts, where she teaches high school English. Elizabeth’s first book, None But Witches (2022), won the 2021 3 Mile Harbor Press Book Award. She has two books forthcoming: a chapbook My Little Book of Domestic Oddities from Ballerini Press in 2025 and a full-length collection Scythe, exploring Marie Antoinette and the end of the world, from River River Books in 2026.


Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:

Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule

 
Paste It Slant_ - Tell It Slant 2025

Paste It Slant
A Collage Poetry Workshop
Sunday, September 21, 10am ET

IN-PERSON PROGRAM — at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA

This is a paid program. Registration is required to attend. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL


Paste It Slant_ - Tell It Slant 2025Join us for a generative workshop that pairs the visual art form of collage with poetry! Participants will be guided through a process of discovery with different collaging materials and text to create their own hand-crafted collage. You will walk away with seeds of poems, deeper knowledge and experience with a visual art form, and a found poetry technique to help you — in the immortal words of Emily Dickinson — “tell all the truth but tell it slant “! All levels of experience with poetry and visual art are welcome.
 
Leticia Priebe Rocha is the author of In Lieu of Heartbreak, This is Like (Bottlecap Press, 2024). She earned her bachelor’s from Tufts University and was awarded the 2020 Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, she grew up in Miami, FL and resides in the Greater Boston area. Her work has been published in Salamander, Rattle, and elsewhere. Leticia is also an Editorial Associate for Yellow Arrow Publishing.


Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:

Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule

 
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Home in a Time of Crisis
New Poets from Poetry Wales
Sunday, September 21, 10am ET

VIRTUAL PROGRAM — streaming live for online registrants

This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL


Home in a Time of Crisis - Tell It Slant 2025 graphicWhere do we find home, belonging and comfort in a time of crisis? What might Emily Dickinson tell us about how to find comfort and strength when it sometimes feels like nothing we do can change things for the better? Head editor and chair Zoë Brigley presents three brilliant new editors from the magazine Poetry Wales: Kandace Siobhan Walker, Tangie Mitchell and Zakia Carpenter-Hall. These rising poetry stars will talk about where they find comfort, reading classic poems such as “Hope” is the thing with feathers’ alongside less well known Dickinson poems and their own work.
 
Zoë Brigley is a Welsh American poet, essayist, editor, and curator whose work spans poetry, translation, nonfiction, and interdisciplinary art. Her three full-length poetry collections—Hand & SkullConquest, and The Secret published by Bloodaxe—have all been named UK Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She received an Eric Gregory Award for outstanding British poets under 30, was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and was commended by the Forward Prize. In 2025, she was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the Arts Council of Ohio, and an Artist’s Project Grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. Zoë is the editor of Poetry Wales. poetrywales.co.uk

Zakia Carpenter-Hall is an American writer, tutor and critic living in the UK. Her poetry reviews and poems have both been published in Poetry Wales, The Poetry Review, Wild Court, Magma and elsewhere. She’s also had multiple reviews appear in Poetry London and on the Poetry School’s website. Human Ecologies (2021) is her ecopoetry film commissioned by The Scottish Poetry Library in partnership with Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival and Obsidian Foundation. She was the editorial intern for Magma 82 Obsidian, a former Poetry London mentee, Jerwood Bursary Recipient and London Library Emerging Writer. She has taught creative writing courses at Kingston University, Royal Holloway University of London and the Poetry School. zakiacarpenterhall.com

Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Jamaican-Canadian, Saltwater Geechee and Welsh heritage. Her work explores ideas and themes of speculative futures, anti-capitalism, popular culture, digital media, abolitionist ecologies and folk spiritualities knowledges. As a multidisciplinary artist, she works with video, painting, textiles, sound and installation. She is represented by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency. She lives in London. kandace.co.uk

Tangie Mitchell is a poet, editor, and collage artist. Born and raised in North Carolina, her work centers personal and collective histories of the Black American South, among other subjects. Tangie earned a BA in Political Science from Spelman College and an MFA in Writing (Poetry) from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has been featured in Poetry Wales, Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, West Trade Review, Berlin Lit, Exposition Review, and more. A Watering Hole Poetry Fellow and an alum of the UK-based Obsidian Foundation, her work has also earned Best of The Net and Robert Siegel Prize nominations and has received support from the Cave Canem Foundation, The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, The Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College, Sundress Academy of the Arts, and other arts institutions. She was a Spring 2024 Contributing Editor for Poetry Wales Issue 59.3: Home in a Time of Ecological Emergency. Tangie lives in Brooklyn with a growing collection of 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s funk/r&b/soul memorabilia. tangiemitchell.com

 


Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:

Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule

 
Thank You For The Surgery”_- Tell It Slant 2025

Thank You For The Surgery
The Poet-Editor Relationship
Saturday, September 20, 3:30pm ET

HYBRID PROGRAM — in-person at the Emily Dickinson Museum AND streaming live for online registrants

This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL


Thank You For The Surgery”_- Tell It Slant 2025Callie Siskel and Elizabeth Metzger, poetry co-editors at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and poet Dorothea Lasky, will use the Higginson-Dickinson correspondence to consider the role of the poet as editor or editor as poet today and rethink our assumptions about the editor. Beyond the aim of publishing our work as poets, how might we see the conversation between poet and editor today as expanding possible pathways of creativity? We often think about the relationship between poet and reader, but the special role of the poet-editor offers an intermediary process that has the opportunity to transform, elevate, or pressurize our solitary artistic visions–sometimes by offering concrete feedback, sometimes by asking us to formulate our aesthetic vision or reconsider our projects and values, and other times simply by creating space in our society for a larger conversation around poetry, life, and listening. In a poetry world in which many editors are poets themselves, and a main avenue for becoming a poet is the workshop classroom, how might the editor-poet relationship create a correspondence that is at once formative, supportive, and expansive, and a relationship that is personally and professionally meaningful and ideally non-hierarchical?
 
Elizabeth Metzger is the author of Lying In, as well as The Spirit Papers, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry, and the chapbook Bed. Her poems have been published in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, and Poem-a-Day. Her essays have been published in Boston Review, Guernica, Conjunctions, PN Review, and Literary Hub, among others. She is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books and a co-editor of PROMPT. She lives in California.

Callie Siskel is the author of Two Minds, forthcoming from W. W. Norton, and Arctic Revival, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry appears in The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and the New York Review of Books. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She holds an MFA from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and a PhD in Creative and Literature from the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review Books.

 
Dorothea Lasky is the author of several books of poetry and prose, including the forthcoming MEMORY (Semiotext(e))
 


Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:

Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule

 
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Open Me Carefully
Dickinson’s Legacy of Correspondence
Saturday, September 20, 1pm ET

HYBRID PROGRAM — in-person at the Emily Dickinson Museum AND streaming live for online registrants

This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required. 
Part of the 2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!

Join us for the 13th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL


Open Me Carefully- Tell It Slant 2025 graphicEmily Dickinson is known to have written more than a thousand intimate and poetic letters in her lifetime. What fueled these correspondences, and how did these correspondences fuel Dickinson’s creative mind? In this workshop, poets Nicole Callihan, Tina Cane, Caitlin Grace McDonnell, and Zoë Ryder White will discuss the necessity and ascendancy of correspondence in their own lives and work. Panelists will consider poetry’s deep intersection of private world and public sphere, and then ask participants to do the same as they pen their own letter-poems. This generative writing—if Nerve not be denied!—will be shared.
 
Caitlin Grace McDonnell, a former New York Times Foundation and Fine Arts Work Center fellow, has published two books (Looking for Small Animals 2012 and Pandemic City 2021, both from Nauset Press) and a chapbook (Dreaming the Tree 2003 from belladonna). Her poems and essays have been widely anthologized, most recently in Braving the Body (2024) and Poetry is Bread (upcoming). She teaches writing and lives in Brooklyn with her daughter.

Nicole Callihan, winner of the 2023 Tenth Gate Prize and a 2023 Alma Award, has two recent poetry collections: chigger ridge (The Word Works 2024) and SLIP (Saturnalia 2025). Other books include This Strange Garment (Terrapin 2023), as well as the chapbooks Downtown, A Study in Spring, and ELSEWHERE (the latter two in collaboration with Zoë Ryder White). Nicole also co-edited the Braving the Body anthology published by Harbor Editions in March 2024.

 
Tina Cane is the founder/director of Writers-in-the-Schools, RI, and served as Poet Laureate of Rhode Island (2016-2024). A 2020 fellow with the Academy of American Poets, Cane is the author of The Fifth Thought, Dear Elena: Letters for Elena Ferrante, Once More With Feeling, Body of Work, and Year of the Murder Hornet. Creator/curator of the distance series Poetry is Bread, and editor of Poetry is Bread: The Anthology, Cane has also published two verse novels for younger readers, Alma Presses Play and Are You Nobody Too? (Penguin/ Random House).
 
Zoë Ryder White’s poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Iterant, Plume, and Threepenny Review, among others. Her first full-length collection, The Visible Field, is forthcoming from River River Books in early 2026. A chapbook, Via Post, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’ Snowbound Chapbook award and won the Sixth Finch chapbook contest in 2022. HYPERSPACE was the editors’ choice pick for the Verse Tomaž Šalamun Prize in 2020 and is available from Factory Hollow Press. She co-authored A Study in Spring and Elsewhere with Nicole Callihan. A former elementary school teacher, she edits books for educators about the craft of teaching.


Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:

Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2025 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule