Despite her solitude, Emily Dickinson tended deep bonds with others by writing hundreds of letters. There are lessons in that ...

Now here’s a happy-go-lucky Emily Dickinson we haven’t heard about from the history books: It’s early 1855 and she’s enjoying a three-week trip to Washington, D.C., where her father ...

Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830; the coming anniversary will mark her 193rd birthday. Few 19 th century women have had her staying power. Little known during her life, she is regarded ...

"Hope isn't good enough," she imagines Sam purring in her ear. "Look at yourself and say, 'I deserve this. I earned it. It's now my time to shine.'" "Dickinson" creator Alena Smith isn't nearly as ...

Emily Dickinson wasn't just talented with the pen, but with the dough too. Sometimes, the two went hand in hand. She often wrote poems while baking treats.

Emily’s family were secluded in their own souls, even from those who knew them well. Their home was secluded in quiet gravity and dignity.

Books & the Arts November 19, 2008 Her Nature Was Future: Emily Dickinson’s White Heat Her Nature Was Future: Emily Dickinson’s White Heat The intimate friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas ...

Emily Dickinson’s closest friends included two men, each of whom, as editor, read hundreds, perhaps thousands, of poems a year with a view toward publication in periodicals; and a third, her ...

There’s not a whole lot that happens to Emily Dickinson that’s all that interesting. So I was basically mining for gold, and when I found gold, I would always use it.

Emily Dickinson liked to use images of nature in her poems with such lines as: “Nature rarer uses yellow / Than another hue / Leaves she all of that for sunsets / Prodigal of blue.” But the ...

With equal parts faith in poetry and concern for America’s young men, I spent a semester teaching a reclusive female poet to dudes. They didn’t see what was coming — and neither did I.

Emily’s relationship with Sue (Ella Hunt), her former lover and current sister-in-law, continues to anchor the pathos, but their romance only simmers as the new Mrs. Austin Dickinson assumes the ...