Hope is the first word of three different poems by Emily Dickinson, the first of which famously continues, “is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul.” This Dickinson poem appears to date ...

In The Thing with Feathers, the writer-director Dylan Southern works hard to fashion the material into a pleasing film. It ...

When we first see Emily Dickinson in writer, creator, and co-executive producer Alena Smith’s new show, she isn’t yet the reclusive legend she would later become. As inhabited by fellow executive ...

It seems Taylor Swift’s knack for writing runs blood deep – all the way back to poet Emily Dickinson. The “Karma” singer and the “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” author are distant relatives, ...

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is hosting its annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival this week, including marathon readings of Dickinson’s work. It coincides with a new exhibit at the poet’s ...

Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms. She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired by distinguished men; the white-clad, solitary spinster languishing alone ...