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The mind is wider than the sky. That was the way Emily Dickinson looked at the world outside her. Or you could say it was the way the soul worked in her. Weigh that statement. There is something of ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2012, a daguerreotype surfaced that was thought to be of a midlife Emily Dickinson, causing an Internet frenzy. As far as we (the frenzied) knew, there was only one known photographic image of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...