VIRTUAL and HYBRID Program (see date details below)
Part of the FREE 2024 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.
Join us for the 12th annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum!
REGISTER FOR THE FESTIVAL
There are two ways to participate in each Marathon session: as a reader or as a listener.
- Listeners sit back and enjoy the group reading, which beautifully blends the voices of volunteer readers coming to Dickinson from different places, times in their lives, and levels of familiarity with the Poet. Listeners can watch the Marathon online via Zoom all week long. Listeners can watch the Marathon online OR in-person during the hybrid sessions on Saturday and Sunday. To sign up as a listener, register through the main Festival page.
- Readers volunteer to read 10-20 poems as part of the circle reading. Reader spots are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Readers of all levels of experience are invited to participate! To sign up as a reader, complete the separate Reader Registration below.
Schedule:
Monday, September 23:
6pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 1
Tuesday, September 24:
12pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 2, co-hosted by Amherst College’s Frost Library
Wednesday, September 25:
12pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 3
Thursday, September 26:
12pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 4, co-hosted by the Jones Library
Friday, September 27:
12pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 5, co-hosted by the Emily Dickinson International Society
Saturday, September 28:
9:30am [Hybrid] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 6
Gingerbread cookies will be served!
Sunday, September 29:
2pm [Hybrid] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Grand Finale
With coconut cake to celebrate!
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.