Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon
September 25 – October 1

Hybrid Program

Part of the 2023 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival

Come read with us and join in for the week-long Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon! 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. For this year’s hybrid Festival, some sessions will take place in-person and others online. For the Marathon, we will be reading from Ralph Franklin’s The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition. 

Marathon session times and reader sign-ups are located in the Festival platform on Hopin. To access the platform, register for the Festival and look for your e-mail confirmation containing the link to Hopin.

Join us for the 11th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum! Register here to access the Festival schedule and sign up to watch or read in Marathon sessions. Your registration for an October 1 ticket, gains you access to the whole Festival:

REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL

Schedule:
Monday, September 25:
6pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 1, co-hosted by Amherst College’s Frost Library

Thursday, September 28:
12pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 4, co-hosted by the Emily Dickinson International Society

Friday, September 29:
12pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 5

Saturday, September 30:
9:30am [Hybrid] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 6

Sunday, October 1:
3pm [Hybrid] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Grand Finale

Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival and Honor Someone Special:
Admission to all Festival events is free, but online donations, especially those made in honor or memory of family, friends, or colleagues are heartily encouraged and vital to the future of this beloved annual event. All gifts are tax deductible and will be recognized as part of the Festival.

2023 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival Schedule