I was in the sixth grade the first time I ever read an Emily Dickinson poem, her lyrical letter to the Grim Reaper, "Because I could not stop for Death." She was one of the dozen writers we learned ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure of ...

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 ...

Emily Dickinson is considered one of most original voices in poetry and as one of the founders of a uniquely American poetic tradition. But the world may have never known her had two women — Mabel ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Community members will get the chance to celebrate National Poetry Month in April by paying homage to the poems of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson in an epic community ...

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 ...

During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson only published 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems. But she certainly thought about publishing more, once even sending a cryptic letter to an Atlantic Monthly writer ...