I had always wondered how my favorite poems by an American poet could have been written by a sad reclusive woman, dressed in white, standing in the upper story of a New England family home. Where did ...

The sole authenticated photograph of Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was taken when she was 16 years old: The daguerreotype revealing a slight young woman with a searching gaze and the slightest hint of a ...

The world premiere of “Emily Dickinson: The Untold Verse” ran from Friday to Sunday at Ballet Co.Laboratory’s intimate Studio Theatre in a strip mall just west of the St. Paul Downtown Airport.

In the previous post, we described a period of emotional turmoil, The Terror, that Dickinson experienced in 1861, followed by a resilient period of renewed energy. By 1866, however, her writing ...

When Emily Dickinson died at 56 in 1886, she was virtually unknown outside a tiny circle of acquaintances. Today she ranks as America’s greatest poet and one of its most creative—though ...

Liane talks to Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro, editors of Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson. The profound and reclusive poet was born 170 years ago today in ...

Part one, 1636-1830: Amherst and the fathers -- Emily Norcross of Monson -- 1826-1828: winning Emily Norcross -- 1828-1830: shifting foundations -- Part two, 1830-1840: 1830-1835: a warm and anxious ...