Past Events

HYBRID PROGRAM - An Emily Dickinson Museum tradition, the Marathon is a group reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson over the course of 7 sessions...

The annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is an event with international reach that celebrates Emily Dickinson’s poetic legacy and the contemporary creativity she and her work continues to inspire from the place she called home...

The annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is an event with international reach that celebrates Emily Dickinson’s poetic legacy and the contemporary creativity she and her work continues to inspire from the place she called home...

The annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is an event with international reach that celebrates Emily Dickinson’s poetic legacy and the contemporary creativity she and her work continues to inspire from the place she called home...

The annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is an event with international reach that celebrates Emily Dickinson’s poetic legacy and the contemporary creativity she and her work continues to inspire from the place she called home...

VIRTUAL PROGRAM - Phosphorescence September 2023 featured poets:
Aldo Amparán, Catherine-Esther Cowie, and Ron Welburn...

HYBRID PROGRAM - Honoring Marilyn Nelson, Alena Smith, and the Founders of the Emily Dickinson Museum...

IN-PERSON PROGRAM - Phosphorescence August 2023 featured poets:
Yamini Pathak, Ilan Stavans, and Devanshi Khetarpal...

HYBRID PROGRAM - A screening of clips from Apple TV+'s hit series Dickinson with special guests Anna Baryshnikov (Lavinia Dickinson), Adrian Blake Enscoe (Austin Dickinson), and costume designer Jennifer Moeller...

VIRTUAL SERIES - Join fellow enthusiastic readers in discussion of novels inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson...

National Book Award and MacArthur Genius grantee and Terrance Hayes and award-winning poet Krysten Hill, read from their work and discuss their poetic practice and inspiration with moderator Nicole Callihan...

HYBRID PROGRAM - Join us in Emily Dickinson’s garden (or virtually) for a garden party with our headlining poets Marilyn Nelson and Abigail Chabitnoy...

Readers will have 5 minutes each to make us feel "physically as if the top of heads were taken off!"...

HYBRID PROGRAM — Our headlining poets, Victoria Chang and Samyok Shertok will read from their work and discuss their poetic practice and inspiration. Q&A to follow...

On Tuesday, August 27, 2024 the Emily Dickinson Museum began the reconstruction of the Dickinson family Carriage House that once stood east of The Evergreens...