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 ...

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Smith’s Boutelle-Day Poetry Center has a mission “to help make poetry something that resonates and is relevant to people’s lives,” says center director Matt Donovan. The colloquium, co-presented by ...

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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 ...

WESTFIELD — Everett Decker can be a man of few words, but he is a man of many poems. A proficient writer of haiku, a Japanese brief form of poetry, he created 1,789 haiku-influenced poems based on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- It may take 13 or 14 hours and some readers will be more experienced than others, but for those who would bask in the glow of every poem ever written by 19th-century American poet ...

A new exhibit in the Dickinson Homestead, now the main attraction at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, offers fresh ...

Since her death in 1886, American poet Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms. She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired by distinguished men; the white-clad, solitary spinster ...

Many people are drawn to Emily Dickinson because of her mysterious life — the brilliant poet rarely left her family home in Amherst, Mass., and her work wasn't recognized until after her death. But ...