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AMHERST, MA. On Saturday, November 12, the Emily Dickinson Museum presents poet Alice Fulton in a reading of her own work and selections from Emily Dickinson's poetry. The free program will take place at 3 p.m. in Pruyne Lecture Hall in Fayerweather Hall on the Amherst College campus. A reception and booksigning will follow.
Alice Fulton is the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English at Cornell University. Recently recognized with an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature "to honor exceptional accomplishment," Fulton has authored eight books, including The Nightingales of Troy: Connected Stories; Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems; and Felt, which received the Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Antioch Review, Fifth Wednesday, and Kenyon Review.
A long-time reader of Emily Dickinson's poetry, Fulton once told an interviewer that she has been "influenced by Dickinson from her earliest days of writing poetry." Although Fulton's writing differs from Dickinson's, scholar Cristanne Miller notes that "Like Dickinson, Fulton makes us see the pomposity, the ridiculousness, and fragility of our beliefs, hopes, and attitudes as well as the sometimes terrible wonder of human interaction and the universe beyond ourselves."
Fittingly, Fulton's first award for her own work was the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America (in 1980). Other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacArthur Foundation.
For directions to Fayerweather Hall and information about parking, please visit www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/alicefulton. Please call 413-542-8429 for more information.
About the Museum
The Emily Dickinson Museum is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday, March through December. For complete information about all 2011 programming and special events, visit www.EmilyDickinsonMuseum.org.The Emily Dickinson Museum, comprising the Dickinson Homestead and The Evergreens, is devoted to the story and legacy of poet Emily Dickinson and her family. Both properties are owned by the Trustees of Amherst College. The Museum is overseen by a separate Board of Governors charged with raising its operating and capital funds. The Homestead was the birthplace and residence of the poet (1830-1886). The Evergreens was the home of the poet's brother and sister-in-law, Austin and Susan Dickinson. The Emily Dickinson Museum is located at 280 Main Street in Amherst.
The Museum is a member of Museums10, a consortium of ten Pioneer Valley museums forged to celebrate the collections and promote the programs of its affiliated museums to local, regional, and national visitors.
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