Hope is the first word of three different poems by Emily Dickinson, the first of which famously continues, “is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul.” This Dickinson poem appears to date ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is hosting its annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival this week, including marathon readings of Dickinson’s work. It coincides with a new exhibit at the poet’s ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Nancy Wells, the University at Buffalo’s vice president for philanthropy and alumni relations, and Robin Shulze, dean of the UB College of Arts and Sciences, ...

Emily Dickinson, whose birthday was December 10, 1830, was a poet known for her reclusive lifestyle. Many of us today, being increasingly reclusive ourselves, have grown to appreciate the incredible ...

THE verbal genius of Emily Dickinson was concerned with the single, word rather than the whole music. Her rhythms present small variety. On page 13 of the Further Poems, for instance, the rhythms ...

Not long ago a distinguished critic, reviewing Father Tabb's poetry, remarked, 'At his most obvious affinity, Emily Dickinson, I can only glance. It seems to me that he contains in far finer form ...