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Dickinson at Ventfort Hall

December 26, 2008 in News | No comments

Dickinson fans in western Massachusetts are encourage to attend The Belle of Amherst at Ventfort Hall (the Museum of the Guilded Age) in Lenox. This perennial evening with Emily runs through December 31st.

Says Normi Noel, who has directed with Shakespeare & Company:

The play is constructed very beautifully. The struggle for her to believe in herself, is very recognizable to any artist. The audience very clearly acts as her witness to that journey – how do you know that what you’re doing is worth doing?

Tickets for The Belle of Amherst are $20 per person. Reservations are encouraged due to limited performance space. For further information and to purchase tickets, call 413-637-3206. Ventfort Hall is located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox.

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Dickinson in Sheboygan

December 11, 2007 in News | No comments

Dickinson fans in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, should note Tuesday, December 18th, on their calendars: the Mead Public Library’s Great Books Club will be discussing the poetry of Emily Dickinson at 6:30 p.m.

The official Daily Dickinson 2008 Calendar is available, featuring poems and pictures that have been featured on this site.

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And many happy returns . . .

December 6, 2007 in News | No comments

Emily Dickinson’s 177th birthday arrives next Monday, December 10 (and she looks hardly a day over 150 . . .). Celebratory events are gearing up; we’ve already mentioned the reading and discussion at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, on Monday evening.

Closer to home (at least, to Dickinson’s home), the Emily Dickinson Museum has a few events planned:

  • “my Verse is alive”, an exhibit that “explores the tangled private and public motives of several figures closely associated with Emily Dickinson,” closes on December 8.
  • Emily Dickinson Birthday Lecture, at 4:00 PM today, Thursday, December 6, given by scholar and biographer Polly Longsworth; the title for her lecture is given as “‘Nothing but a Sword’: Austin and Mabel and the Publication of Emily Dickinson’s Poems.”
  • Birthday Open House, 1:00 – 4:00 PM on Saturday, December 8; “the first 177 visitors will receive a rose, courtesy of an anonymous donor.”

The Amherst Bulletin lists some of the many entertainments to expect at the open house, including music, crafts, and a book signing by Barbara Dana and Cindy MacKenzie. If you find yourself in Amherst on Saturday, this is a must-see event!

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Birthday Bash at the Folger Shakespeare Library

November 30, 2007 in News | 1 comment

On December 10th, the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, celebrates Dickinson’s 177th birthday with a reading and discussion hosted by Richard Howard, poetry editor of the Paris Review and winner of the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for “Untitled Subjects”.

In addition to readings of Dickinson’s work and the discussion of Dickinson’s phenomenal output of 1862–more than 200 poems were produced that year (see Emily Dickinson Revisited: A Study of Periodicity in Her Work by John F. McDermott, M.D. for some interesting charts and graphs…)–the Folger will serve black cake made according to Dickinson’s recipe (more on the pounds of fruit and pints of brandy required here).

Now would be a good time, too, to note that Emily Dickinson: The Poet Lights the Lamp, a one-woman play written and performed by Yvonne Hudson, will be staged at St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, on December 5. It’s a grand old time for Dickinson in Foggy Bottom this winter!

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The Poet Lights the Lamp: December 5, 2007, in Washington, DC

October 22, 2007 in News | 1 comment

Yvonne Hudson’s The Poet Lights the Lamp that had been scheduled for the University of Pittsburgh last weekend had to be cancelled.

However, the compilation will be presented in Washington, DC, for Emily’s birthday on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, at St. Augustine’s Lutheran Church, a co-presentation of Southeastern University and the monthly St. Augustine’s “Art and the Spirit” program.

Write New.Place.Collaborations@gmail.com for details on booking or attending this program and Yvonne Hudson’s presentations of ‘The Belle of Amherst,’ performed in Pittsburgh in 2006 for the 30th anniversary of William Luce’s play.

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