In this issue
-- "'I told my Soul to Sing': Emily Dickinson and the American Art Song"
-- Make A Gift Before Our June 30 Fiscal Year End!
-- New Membership Program--Take a Survey!
-- "Creatures of Bliss and Mystery": A Nineteenth-Century Children's Circus -- Poetry in the Homestead Garden -- Bill Murray "Gathers Paradise" at Poets House -- A Summertime Story -- Support the Emily Dickinson Museum -- About the Museum -- Are you on Facebook®? Join us!
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"'I told my Soul to Sing': Emily Dickinson and the American Art Song" 
Wednesday, June 30, 7 p.m.Amhert Woman's Club, 35 Triangle Street, Amherst Admission $10 adults, $7 seniors/students The Emily Dickinson Museum will present "'I told my Soul to Sing': Emily Dickinson and the American Art Song," an evening of Dickinson's poetry in music, with soprano Karen Smith Emerson and pianist Nicole Panizza. The lecture and recital will take place at the Amherst Woman's Club at 35 Triangle Street; a reception will follow. Tickets are available at the door. The program will highlight musical treatments of Dickinson's work by focusing on eight Dickinson poems, including "Heart, we will forget Him," "I never saw a Moor," and "I taste a liquor never brewed." Each poem will be performed in two song settings by different composers. Featured composers include Ernst Bacon, Aaron Copland, and John Duke. Ms. Panizza will introduce the program with an overview of Dickinson's poetry as it has been set to music in the last century, then Ms. Smith Emerson will join her to perform the works.
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Make A Gift Before Our June 30 Fiscal Year End! 
As the Emily Dickinson Museum approaches the end of another fiscal year (June 30), your gift to the Museum's Annual Fund will keep it on a sustainable course. We need your help to make it possible for new visitors to appreciate how Dickinson's great poetry can make one "feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off..." We hope you will make your gift now and be as generous as possible.
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New Membership Program--Take a Survey! We need your help to create an appealing membership plan. Please take a moment to tell us how you feel about benefits such as free admission to the Museum, a subscription to the "Message from the Meadows" newsletter, discounts on purchases from the Museum Shop and on fees for special programs, invitations to member events, and more. Thank you for your help--and plan to join as founding members in 2010! |
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"Creatures of Bliss and Mystery": A Nineteenth-Century Children's Circus 
Saturday, July 10, 1-4 p.m. (Rain date: July 11)On the grounds of the Museum Free and open to the public The circus returns! New this year will be Henry the Juggler who regales his audiences with the apparatus of his trade: balls, clubs, rings, and torches. Henry the Juggler has been seen by tens of thousands up and down the East coast, appearing at theaters, schools, libraries, festivals and business districts. Be sure to stop by and see Henry 's performances at 2 p.m. and 2: 45 p.m. At 1:15 and 3:15 Tim Van Egmond will engage audience members with tall tales and tunes. Music flows in and around his stories and through his singing and performing on the wide variety of traditional instruments he plays, including the hammered dulcimer, conga drum, guitar and limberjack (a dancing wooden rhythm puppet). His dynamic style of voice and movement makes stories come alive, and his gift for encouraging participation makes for high-spirited and engaging programs. The day is packed with fun activities especially appropriate for children aged 3 to 10 (accompanied by an adult). Please check our website for more details.
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Poetry in the Homestead Garden 
Sundays, July 18, 25, August 1, 2 p.m.On the grounds of the Museum The Emily Dickinson Museum is happy to announce the speakers for the three Sundays of Poetry in the Garden:
July 18, 2010: Karen Sánchez-Eppler
July 25, 2010: Alice Parker
August 1, 2010: Henk Rossouw
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Bill Murray "Gathers Paradise" at Poets House 
Founded in 1985 by the late Stanley Kunitz, two-time poet laureate of the United States, and arts administrator Elizabeth Kray, Poets House is a national literary center and poetry library based in New York City. With more than 50,000 volumes of poetry, the library is the premier independent poetry library in the United States.
In May 2009, Poets House moved from its longstanding location in SoHo to an eco-friendly "green" building at Ten River Terrace in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park City. Members of the construction team which built the new Poets House joined actor Bill Murray for the first poetry reading at River Terrace. In honor of the occasion one of the poems Bill Murray read was Emily Dickinson' 'I dwell in Possibility.' |
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A Summertime Story 
On June 9, the PBS News Hour broadcasted a piece on the New York Botanical Garden's exhibition on Emily Dickinson. Journalist Paul Solman discussed with Alice Quinn, director of the Poetry Society of America, Emily Dickinson's poetry and the natural world as her muse.
At the end of the piece, Alice Quinn announced which Dickinson poem will be riding the New York buses this summer. Photo by Steve Fratoni You Tube" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="COLOR: #993300;">View the program here. |
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Support the Emily Dickinson Museum 
The Emily Dickinson Museum is a vibrant literary
landmark, honoring of one of the world's
greatest poets. In these times of economic challenge for non-profit cultural organizations, we especially need your help to maintain the tours, programs, and connection with the poet's world at the Emily Dickinson Museum. Read a compelling message about the Museum's needs and goals from Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large for Vanity Fair magazine and a member of the Emily Dickinson Museum's Board of Governors. Make your gift now via PayPal!
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About the Museum 
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 responsible for raising the Museum's operating and capital funds. The Museum is a member of Museums10, a collaboration of ten museums linked to the five colleges in the Pioneer Valley. The Tour Center may be reached at 413-542-2947, Wednesday through Sunday, during museum hours.
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