Call for Submissions:Phosphorescence and Tell It Slant 2024
We are now accepting proposals for Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series and the 12th Annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival...
Dickinson’s 191st Birthday CelebrationFriday, December 10, 12pm ET
You are cordially invited to the Emily Dickinson Museum’s virtual celebration of the poet’s 191st birthday...
The “Real” Emily Dickinson at 191Wednesday, December 1, 4:30pm ET
An illustrated talk and birthday celebration with Emily Dickinson Museum Director Jane Wald...
The Props assist the House:Restoring the Homestead (Part 3)Saturday, September 25, 1pm
In the final installment of this three-part series, go behind the scenes of the restoration of Emily Dickinson’s home with Museum Executive Director Jane Wald and special guest Jeff Baker, preservation architect...
An Evening with Tracy K. Smith and Tiana ClarkSaturday, September 25, 7:30pm
Settle in for an evening of poetry celebrating Emily Dickinson’s ongoing creative legacy with the work of two internationally acclaimed contemporary female poets, headliners Tracy K. Smith and Tiana Clark...
Phosphorescence Poetry Reading SeriesThursday, March 25, 6-7pm
Phosphorescence March 2021 featured poets:
Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Amy Dryansky, and W. Todd Kaneko...
Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Amy Dryansky, and W. Todd Kaneko...
Staging the Poem:Masterclass with Tess TaylorFriday, September 24, 12pm
What is drama in poetry? By turning the lenses of drama on the poems we read and onto our own drafts, participants in this masterclass will think about how the theatrical cues of place, voice, and address make a poem legible to us, and help a poem to feel spoken and embodied across time...
A Stranger in My Own Home:Black Experiences Within the American Literary CanonTuesday, September 21, 7pm
A panel of the brightest Black poets of our time to consider their own experiences reading the canon, and writing poems to expand it...
Emily Dickinson Poetry MarathonSeptember 20 – 26
An Emily Dickinson Museum tradition, the Marathon is a group reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson over the course of all 7 days of the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival...
Phosphorescence Poetry Reading SeriesThursday, April 22, 6-7pm
Phosphorescence April 2021 featured poets:
Jennifer Franklin, Philip F. Clark, Fred Marchant and Mervyn Taylor...
Jennifer Franklin, Philip F. Clark, Fred Marchant and Mervyn Taylor...
The Props assist the House:Restoring the Homestead (Part 2)Thursday, August 19, 6-7pm
In the second of this three-part series, go behind the scenes of the restoration of Emily Dickinson’s home with Museum Director Jane Wald and special guest Marylou Davis, conservator and specialist of historic decorative finishes...
Emily Dickinson International SocietyAnnual MeetingAugust 6 – 7
This year’s focus is Dickinson’s great love of Shakespeare with a variety of scholarly panels, lectures, and workshops...
2022 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Call for Proposals
The Emily Dickinson Museum is now accepting proposals for the ninth annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival (formerly the Amherst Poetry Festival), a virtual event held September 20-26, 2021...
The Props assist the House -:Restoring the Homestead (Part 1)Thursday, July 15, 6-7pm
In the first of a three-part series, go behind the scenes of the restoration of Emily Dickinson's home with Museum Director Jane Wald...
Poetry Discussion Group: Spring 2023 Series
A lively virtual discussion of Emily Dickinson’s poetry and letters, meeting once a month from February to May...