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 ...

Deep Purple’s head-banging 1972 rock anthem is the last thing you’d expect to hear — in any form — on “The Book of Longing,” Brazilian-born vocal standout Luciana Souza’s 14th and newest album. Named ...

AMHERST-- The Emily Dickinson Museum will waive admission costs Thursday for anyone who can recite a poem by its namesake. The museum, made up of two historic houses at 280 Main St. in Amherst ...

It turns out that for a not insignificant fee, literary museums and author’s homes will often let guests handle the artifacts, materials, and manuscripts of long-deceased writers. On a chilly, ...

Fans of literature and history this week can take a deep-dive into the mind of Emily Dickinson during a daylong reading of all 1,789 of her poems at her Amherst home. The “Emily Dickinson Poetry ...

AMHERST — Central American Rosalina Cañas beamed in the sunshine outside the Emily Dickinson Museum as she spoke in Spanish about how her grandson, Dennys, enjoyed participating in the multimedia art ...

Readers always seem to want to get closer to Emily Dickinson, the godmother of American poetry. Paging through her poems feels like burrowing nose-deep in her 19th century backyard — where "the grass ...

When you hear "Emily Dickinson," you probably think of descriptions like prolific, eccentric, poetic, and reclusive. But "laugh-out-loud funny" probably isn't high on the list. Paul Legault is here to ...