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 ...

Nuala O'Connor's novel Miss Emily vividly brings Emily Dickinson to life, depicting her reclusive days amongst her parents and sister at their estate, the Homestead in Amherst, Mass., in the 1860s, as ...

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 ...

This essay is part a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting on essential works of writing, art and music. In his weekly interview with writers, Scott ...

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 ...

Emily Dickinson, Poems, Boston: Roberts Brothers (1890), Amherst College Archives & Special Collections (image courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum) Never before have Emily Dickinson’s writings and ...

Poetry transforms into dance in Ballet Co.Laboratory’s production of “Emily Dickinson: The Untold Verse.” Choreographer Genevieve Waterbury creates an arc of Dickinson’s life illuminated through her ...