Past Events

arts night

Amherst Arts Night Virtual Reading: October 1, 2020 at 6:30pm – REMOTE PROGRAM

Our monthly remote poetry reading, featuring three poets every first Thursday...
poetry festival

The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival: Hybrid Event

Join us for a celebration of contemporary creativity at the 2020 Amherst Poetry Festival...
EMILYTOBER: A collection of prompts for Artober

#Emilytober Prompt List – Be Inspired, October 1st – 31st!

We are so excited to be participating in #Artober, by releasing our own list of prompts consisting of lines from Emily Dickinson poems!...
poetry disc

Poetry Discussion Group, September 18, 2020

Engage in lively conversation about the poetry and letters of Emily Dickinson...
arts night

Amherst Arts Night Virtual Reading: September 3, 2020 at 6:30PM – REMOTE PROGRAM

Join us for our monthly Arts Night Out reading, featuring three authors with new books this year...

Martha Ackmann Virtual Book Talk and Q&A, August 16, 2020, 5-6 p.m. (EST)

Discover the book that provides new insights into Emily Dickinson...
arts night

Amherst Arts Night Poetry Reading, August 6, 2020 – REMOTE PROGRAM

Featured readers present their work virtually, every first Thursday...
a wheelbarrow for garden days

CANCELED – Garden Days, August 2 & 3, 2020

Celebrate the beauty of summer during Garden Days at the Emily Dickinson Museum...
close up on Dickinson's face from the black and white dagguereotype

Emily Dickinson International Society Annual Meeting, July 31-August 1, 2020

The 2020 EDIS annual meeting will be held virtually...
apf 2018

Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Call for Proposals: April 9 – June 7, 2020

The Emily Dickinson Museum is now accepting proposals for the eighth annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival...
a robin sits on a blue shovel surrounded by flower pots

Summer in the Poet’s Garden with Marta McDowell, July 17 12:30-1:30pm

Join Marta McDowell, master gardener, landscape historian, and author of Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life for a virtual stroll through the Homestead gardens...
Poet reading at a microphone in the museum

Amherst Arts Night Poetry Reading Series, July 2, 2020 – REMOTE PROGRAM

Stop by our monthly open mic and art exhibition...
Landscape Tours

CANCELLED – Garden Days, June 6 & 7, 2020

Tend the historic landscape of the Dickinson property...
arts night plus

Amherst Arts Night Poetry Reading, June 4, 2020 at 6:30PM – REMOTE PROGRAM

Spend an evening with artists at the Emily Dickinson Museum...