Drew Calvert is a writer living in Southern California. “My friends are my estate,” Emily Dickinson wrote to Samuel Bowles in 1859, in a letter whose chief purpose was to thank him for a pamphlet.

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 ...

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 ...

Emily Dickinson was once better known as a gardener. The poet’s first book preserved these species. August 5, 2025 Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey are the artists who created ”This Earthen Door,” on ...

I’m Ann Fisher-Wirth, the Poet Laureate for Mississippi 2025-2029, and I want to tell you about my new podcast series called “The Favorite Poem Project,” available through the Mississippi Arts ...