Though a notorious recluse, Emily Dickinson shared her masterful creations with friends and neighbors. Early drafts of her poems are often found on the backs of cake recipes and flour labels. Ah, the ...

Emily Dickinson was 31 and entirely unknown in the literary world when she came across Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s “Letter to a Young Contributor” in the April 1862 issue of The Atlantic. Hoping for ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - News4 and Chris Warren, Director of the Dothan Houston County Library Systems, celebrated National Poetry Month with The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson for April’s Chapter ...

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 ...

THE verbal genius of Emily Dickinson was concerned with the single, word rather than the whole music. Her rhythms present small variety. On page 13 of the Further Poems, for instance, the rhythms ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

“A Quiet Passion” is an exquisite film about the life of Emily Dickinson. Good thing it is, too, since we’re not likely to get another biopic about the great American poet anytime soon. The crude ...

The dodo is both a victim of humans and a symbol of our own power, carelessness and avarice. By Renée Bergland The writer Kelsey McKinney tries to wrestle with our guiltiest pleasure. By Marisa ...