POETRY EVENT FOR WASHINGTON, D.C. RESIDENTS

Monday, December 8, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM
EMILY DICKINSON DAY & EVENING

 Help celebrate the poet's 184th birthday by helping us read her poems! This event is free and open to the public. To participate in the "Emily Dickinson Birthday Marathon Reading,"please sign up online for a 10-minute reading slot. Presented in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Location: LJ-119, first floor, Thomas Jefferson Building <view map>
Contact: (202) 707-5394

Thursday, December 11, 1:00 PM
BAGLEY WRIGHT LECTURE SERIES: TIMOTHY DONNELLY

As part of the ongoing series, Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner Timothy Donnelly will give a lecture on poetry. This event is free and open to the public.

Location: Mary Pickford Theater, 3rd Floor, James Madison Building <view map>
Contact: (202) 707-5394

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AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS
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Book launch, Dickinsons in Love featured Emily Dickinson's birthday December 10

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Emily Dickinson's birthday is on Wednesday, December 10, and the Emily Dickinson Museum will celebrate the occasion with the launch of a novel about Dickinson and a special presentation of "Dickinsons in Love."  

Continuing the theme, Susan Snively will read from her new novel, The Heart Has Many Doors, which explores the relationship between Emily Dickinson and Judge Otis Lord, will begin at 5 pm at the Amherst Woman's Club at 35 Triangle Street in Amherst. A booksigning and reception will follow.   

Susan Snively is a guide, discussion leader, and film script writer for the Emily Dickinson Museum. The author of four books of poetry, she was the founder and first director of the Writing Center at Amherst College, where she worked from 1981 until 2008. Learn more about her work at www.susansnively.com.

"Dickinsons in Love" will be offered at both 3 pm and 7 pm. Those intrigued by the stories shared in The Heart Has Many Doors will enjoy hearing more about the love lives of the Dickinson family. For more details, click here

IX

The heart asks pleasure first,
And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;

And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.



EMILY DICKINSON