“I wrote poetry in high school and always was a fan of Emily Dickinson. Then in my early 20s I read a biography of her, and something about her coming-of-age story, her adolescence and early ...

Many town wells had dried up, and the Connecticut River was low ... and made a quick entry in his diary. Meeting Emily Dickinson quite equaled my expectation, he wrote. It had been a momentous ...

Judith Farr remembered the precise moment when she was first overcome by the poetry of Emily ... my total attention,” Dr. Farr said years later, recalling her desperate puzzlement over Dickinson ...

The original manuscript of Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" was recently made into a single by musician Andrew Bird. (Courtesy Houghton Library, Harvard University via NEPM ...

“Emily Dickinson was the original sad girl,” Fineman’s Sylvia says as she tells the sisters, who Sylvia believes are Smith College students, about the “morbidly depressed” poet with whom ...

“I was trying to be impassive, but I was thinking, ‘Oh my God, that could be Emily Dickinson.’ We needed to think how to bring this out in the world.’’ What followed was a lot of ...