This year’s line-up features workshops, panels, and readings, by a diverse and talented group of poets from around the world. The cornerstone of the Festival, the Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon, is an epic reading of all 1,789 of Emily Dickinson’s poems.

Schdule of Events:

12-2:15pm [Virtual] — Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 2

A group reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson over the course of 7 sessions. This session takes place entirely virtually and is open to both readers and listeners. We will be reading from Ralph Franklin’s The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition. Sign up as a listener or reader by registering for the Festival.

6-7:30pm [Virtual] — Our Roots as Muse: Family & Ancestry as Creative Inspiration

Facilitators will lead participants in a series of generative writing exercises using personal family and ancestral history as creative inspiration and content. Participants will leave the workshop with at least two writing sketches and other writing resources to continue developing their ideas and creatively archiving their own family histories.

Featuring .chisaraokwu. and Tamara J. Madison.

6:30-8pm [Virtual] — Telling our Medical Stories Slant

In this workshop, participants will learn how to translate their personal stories of illness and disability into poetry, something Dickinson herself practiced, and something that’s employed by practitioners of Narrative/Poetic Medicine.

Featuring Rosemarie Dombrowski and Catharine Clark-Sayles.

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