Not long ago a distinguished critic, reviewing Father Tabb's poetry, remarked, 'At his most obvious affinity, Emily Dickinson, I can only glance. It seems to me that he contains in far finer form ...

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 ...

It turns out that for a not insignificant fee, literary museums and author’s homes will often let guests handle the artifacts, materials, and manuscripts of long-deceased writers. On a chilly, ...

AMHERST –Author Susan Snively, a volunteer at the Emily Dickinson Museum here, guided a young person recently who said that once she began to read Dickinson's work, she knew she would never stop.

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. These scraps of paper, carrying ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emily Dickinson is back. Perhaps she never really went away. But in recent months, she has begun popping up in film, books, online and in a major museum exhibition. “A Quiet Passion,” a film about the ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

When you hear "Emily Dickinson," you probably think of descriptions like prolific, eccentric, poetic, and reclusive. But "laugh-out-loud funny" probably isn't high on the list. Paul Legault is here to ...