VIRTUAL WORKSHOP — streaming live for online registrants
This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required.
Part of the 2026 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!
Join us for the 14th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum!
Time travel with Emily Dickinson from her clockless childhood to eternity’s carriage ride. During this generative workshop, we’ll explore time’s slant in Dickinson’s poetics, then leap into the present to write our own time travel poems in the contemporary ‘century’ form — a 100-word prose poem. Using Dickinson’s lines as launchpads, craft yours decade-by-decade through short timed prompts. We’ll cap this with ‘bursts of now’: 100-second single-image sprints! Add numerical and temporal play to your poetic toolbox and leave with fresh work.About the presenter
Michaela Coplen is an American poet living in London. Her debut chapbook, Finishing School, was published by ignitionpress in 2022. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Rialto, The London Magazine, Bad Lilies, Basket, Poets.org, and the 2020 Best New Poets anthology. In 2013, she was appointed a National Student Poet by First Lady Michelle Obama & the President’s Committee on the Arts & the Humanities.
Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival
The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is sustained by the Emily Dickinson Fund, which provides critical, unrestricted support for the Museum’s day-to-day operations. Your generous donation helps us offer immersive poetry programs to a global audience and preserve the historic Dickinson legacy in Amherst. As the Fund supplies 36% of our annual budget, your tax-deductible contribution is essential to our mission. Join us in inspiring learners of all ages by making an immediate impact today.