Emily Dickinson

The Element That Defines America: Ten Great American Poems (and a Whole Book of Poetry) About Fire

Katie Peterson Recommends Work by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Douglas Kearney, and More

 
By Katie Peterson  January 11, 2024
The History of Literature

Anne Enright on Growing Up in Ireland

By History of Literature  December 13, 2023
The History of Literature

Celia Brayfield on How Anna Sewell Changed Animal Rights

By History of Literature  October 16, 2023
The History of Literature

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

By History of Literature  September 18, 2023
The History of Literature

Patrick Whitmarsh on Fiction’s Response to Existential Crises

By History of Literature  August 28, 2023
The History of Literature

Vanessa Riley on Haiti’s Only Queen

By History of Literature  August 21, 2023
The Hub

Listen to Phoebe Bridgers and Andrew Bird “reimagine” Emily Dickinson.

By Jonny Diamond  October 26, 2022
Addiction

Seeking a New Story: On Sobriety and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves

By Sara Martin  October 25, 2022
The History of Literature

A Close Reading of Emily Dickinson’s Poem “Because I could not stop for Death”

By History of Literature  June 21, 2022
The Hub

Come play EmilyBlaster, a ’90s-style game based on the poems of Emily Dickinson.

By Literary Hub  June 17, 2022
Micro

What Draws Us to Certain Classic Texts Over Others?

By Micro   June 10, 2022
Micro

Late Greats: Readings of Emily Dickinson, Robert Herrick, William Butler Yeats, Kobayashi Issa, and Virginia Woolf

By Micro   June 7, 2022
Thresholds

N. Scott Momaday on Landscape, Emily Dickinson, and the Fellowship That Changed His Life

By Thresholds   April 20, 2022
Serialized Novels

How Writing a Serialized Novel Helped Carley Moore Connect With the World During a Time of Disconnection

By Carley Moore  April 1, 2022
The Hub

8 books to help you through these last cold days of winter.

By Snigdha Koirala  February 11, 2022
The Hub

Need something to do today? Here’s six hours of Emily Dickinson for your listening pleasure.

By Emily Temple  December 10, 2021
Literary History

An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000…
But Was it Stolen?

By Jen DeGregorio  September 16, 2021
Writer's Homes

Getting to Know an Author Through Their Home

By Amy Belding Brown  August 5, 2021
Poets

In Praise of a Brazen Poet: On the Essays of Kay Ryan, Outsider

By Jason Guriel  April 28, 2021
2021

Here’s Your 2021 Literary Film and TV Preview

By Emily Temple  January 14, 2021
Literary Tourism

On the Particular Thrill of Visiting a Dead Writer’s House

By Phoebe Hamilton Jones  December 8, 2020
The Hub

Read Louise Glück’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

By Walker Caplan  December 7, 2020
On Poetry

How Claire Malroux’s Translations of Emily Dickinson Shaped Her Own Poetry

By Marilyn Hacker  November 9, 2020
Poetry

The Soul-Excavating Work of Louise Glück

By Maureen N. McLane  October 16, 2020
Life in a Pandemic

Unsent Letters from Lockdown: Emily Dickinson, Simone de Beauvoir, My Children

By Kerstin Preiwuss  June 2, 2020
Literary History

The Letter That Changed Emily Dickinson’s Life

By Martha Ackmann  May 26, 2020
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