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American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

It's now well-known that on May 15, 1886, when Emily Dickinson died and left behind a trove of magnificent, genre-altering poems, that she left little to no direction as to how they should be read or ...

Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and ...

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is hosting its annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival this week, including marathon readings of Dickinson’s work. It coincides with a new exhibit at the poet’s ...

Just when you think Dickinson can't get any weirder, everyone starts doing opium at a house party. You know, as 19th century teens do. Enter comedian Jason Mantzoukas as a bee that Emily Dickinson ...

Readers always seem to want to get closer to Emily Dickinson, the godmother of American poetry. Paging through her poems feels like burrowing nose-deep in her 19th century backyard — where "the grass ...

AMHERST-- The Emily Dickinson Museum will waive admission costs Thursday for anyone who can recite a poem by its namesake. The museum, made up of two historic houses at 280 Main St. in Amherst ...

Emily Dickinson, whose birthday was December 10, 1830, was a poet known for her reclusive lifestyle. Many of us today, being increasingly reclusive ourselves, have grown to appreciate the incredible ...

I’m Ann Fisher-Wirth, the Poet Laureate for Mississippi 2025-2029, and I want to tell you about my new podcast series called “The Favorite Poem Project,” available through the Mississippi Arts ...