In this issue
-- "my Verse is alive": Exhibit Traces Winding Path to Publication
-- "This is my letter to the World": How to Read a Dickinson Poem
-- 3rd Annual Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon!
-- Kinsmen of the Shelf -- People are Talking! -- The Amazing Architect Tour is back
Greetings from the Emily Dickinson Museum! Hours: Read on for news of events and programs at the Emily Dickinson Museum in the weeks ahead. |
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"my Verse is alive": Exhibit Traces Winding Path to Publication 
The Emily Dickinson Museum presents "my Verse
is
alive," a new exhibit exploring the intriguing
posthumous publication of Dickinson's poetry, from
Saturday, September 15 through Saturday,
December
8, 2007 at the Dickinson Homestead.
The exhibit takes its title from Emily Dickinson's 1862 query to author and activist Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?" With documents and family artifacts, the exhibit traces the creation of her literary reputation through the competing efforts and loyalties of family members and intimates in the first fifty years after the poet's death. The exhibit, which is part of Museums10's fall collaborative BookMarks, is open through December 8 during regular Museum hours. Admission to the exhibit is free.
FREE TALK: To learn about Museums10 and other BookMarks programs and exhibits taking place throughout the Pioneer Valley this fall, Click on the link below. |
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"This is my letter to the World": How to Read a Dickinson Poem 
Feel like you don't know where to start with Emily
Dickinson's poetry? Then this FREE
Dickinson 101
discussion is for you! On Sunday, September 23,
at 2
p.m., author Joanne Dobson will demystify
Dickinson's work with a step-by-step tour of her
poetry.
During the afternoon, participants will read a few key poems in light of the nature of manuscript poetry, the tradition of social circulation of private texts, and publishing practices of Emily Dickinson's day. This program is perfect for those new to Dickinson as well as those with experience wrestling with her verse. Dobson is the author of Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence: The Woman Writer in Nineteenth- Century America. She was editor and co-founder of Legacy - A Journal of American Women Writers for ten years. Until recently, she taught creative writing and literature at Fordham University. She now writes full- time and is the author of the Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery series. Location: Amherst Woman's Club, 35 Triangle Street, across the street from the Emily Dickinson Museum. Admission is free and open to all. Special thanks to all who have taken our survey on the best way to approach an Emily Dickinson poem for the first time. It's not too late to chime in. Click on the link below to answer a few quick questions (no wrong answers!) about how you read Dickinson's poetry. Be sure to indicate whether we can share your name and hometown when we publish your answers online this fall. |
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3rd Annual Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon! 
On Saturday, September 29, from 6 a.m. until
about midnight, at the Emily Dickinson
Museum will host its third marathon reading of all
1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson. For the first time, the
Poetry Marathon will travel from the Dickinson
Homestead into town. The Amherst Town Hall, Frost
Library at Amherst College, and the Fiber Art Center
will all host part of the marathon. This event is free
and open to the public.
Each year the Marathon attracts poets, writers, journalists, children, college students, families, teachers, poetry lovers and the curious. All are welcome to stay for the 18+ hours or drop in to listen for some of their favorites. Anyone who wishes to read Dickinson's poetry during the Marathon is especially encouraged to attend, but listeners are also welcome. SCHEDULE:
The event will take place rain or shine. For information on how you can participate as a reader in the marathon, please click on the link below or e-mail csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org. |
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Kinsmen of the Shelf 
This Fall the Kinsmen season begins with the
reading of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Our
first meeting is scheduled for Sunday, September
30, 2007, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. at Amherst College
Alumni House.
Lise Sanders, assistant professor of English
Literature and cultural studies at Hampshire College,
will lead our discussion. |
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People are Talking!
I came here as a child once. I am happy to return.-
C.Olivares, NY
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The Amazing Architect Tour is back 
"The Props Assist the House": The Dickinsons
and the Meaning of House and
HomeThe Emily Dickinson Museum's latest tour offering explores the meaning of house and home to the Dickinson family and to nineteenth- century New England society. The tour looks at the houses from both outside and inside. Advanced registration is suggested for this tour only. To register, please e-mail csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org or call 413- 542-8429. Please note: tour does not include Emily Dickinson's bedroom.
Tour time : (60 minutes)
Sunday, September 16, 12:30 p.m. |
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The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and
The Evergreens is dedicated to educating diverse
audiences about the poet's life, family, creative
work, times, and enduring relevance, and to
preserving and interpreting the Homestead and The
Evergreens as historical resources for the benefit of
scholars and the general public. The Emily Dickinson
Museum is owned by the Trustees of Amherst
College and has its own Board of Governors,
which is charged with the responsibility of raising the
Museum's operating and capital funds. The Museum
is a member of Museums10,
a collaboration of 10 museums in the Pioneer Valley.
To find out
how you can support the Emily Dickinson Museum,
click here.
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Contact Information
phone:
413/542-8161
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