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It is the Museum’s mission to spark the imagination by amplifying Emily Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice from the place she called home.

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 16h

She rose as high as His Occasion
Then sought the Dust -
And lower lay in low Westminster
For Her brief Crest -

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of year: Emily Dickinson Tarot Decks are back in stock! One of our most popular items, grab your deck while they are available.

Luck is not chance - / It’s Toil -

Shop:
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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Up Life’s Hill with my little Bundle
If I prove it steep -
If a Discouragement withold me -
If my newest step

Older feel than the Hope that prompted -
Spotless be from blame
Heart that proposed as Heart that accepted
Homelessness, for Home -

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 2d

The Soul should always stand ajar
That if the Heaven inquire
He will not be obliged to wait
Or shy of troubling Her

Depart, before the Host have slid
The Bolt unto the Door
To search for the accomplished Guest,
Her Visitor, no more -

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Ideals are the Fairy Oil
With which We help the Wheel
But when the Vital Axle turns
The Eye rejects the Oil.

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 7d

The Fingers of the Light
Tapped soft opon the Town
With “I am great and cannot wait
So therefore let me in”.

“You’re soon”, the Town replied,
My Faces are asleep
But swear, and I will let you by
You will not wake them up”.

The easy Guest complied
But once within the Town
The transport of His Countenance
Awakened Maid and Man

The Neighbor in the Pool
Opon His Hip elate
Made loud obeisance and the Gnat
Held up His Cup for Light.

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Educator Workshop
“Many a phrase has the English language -“:
Teaching with Dickinson’s Manuscripts
Wednesday, October 8, 6:30pm ET
Learn more and register:
emilydickinsonmuseum.org/educator-workshop-10-8-25/

Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 8d

"Dickinson...didn’t just observe the flora and fauna around her. She treated them — birds and bugs, flowers and snakes — as fellow creatures, characters in the tragicomic pageant of life and death. To her, a blackberry is a living, suffering being."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Wildest Blackberry Poems by Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Others

Our critic A.O. Scott forages the world’s most poetic fruit.

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 8d

This was in the White of the Year -
That - was in the Green -
Drifts were as difficult then to think
As Daisies now to be seen -

Looking back, is best that is left
Or if it be - before -
Retrospection is Prospect’s half,
Sometimes, almost more -

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 9d

Superfluous were the Sun
When Excellence be dead
He were superfluous every Day
For every Day be said

That syllable whose Faith
Just saves it from Despair
And whose “I’ll meet You” hesitates
If Love inquire “Where”?

Opon His dateless Fame
Our Periods may lie
As Stars that drop anonymous
From an abundant sky.

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 12d

Crumbling is not an instant’s Act
A fundamental pause
Dilapidation’s processes
Are organized Decays -

’Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul
A Cuticle of Dust
A Borer in the Axis
An Elemental Rust -

Ruin is formal - Devil’s work
Consecutive and slow -
Fail in an instant, no man did
Slipping - is Crashe’s law -

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 14d

How still the Bells in Steeples stand
Till swollen with the Sky
They leap opon their silver Feet
In frantic Melody!

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 15d

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 18d

Day 6 of the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is packed with programs — in-person at the Dickinson Homestead and streaming live to participants around the globe!

Space is limited, register for free:
emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 19d

Starting today, The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is live from Amherst and features hybrid events at the Emily Dickinson Museum — there's still time to register for free!

Tell all the truth but tell it slant!
FREE REGISTRATION:
emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slan...

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 20d

Day 4 of the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival has us hungry for more poetry! Join us for the marathon, a writing workshop, and a reading.

There's still time to register — it's free!:
emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slant-2025

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 21d

Part 3 of the Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon has begun (12pm ET) and started with Fr370:
"Within my Garden, rides a Bird”...
Thank you to our readers from all around the world!

There's still time to join the Festival. Register for free:
emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slant-2025/

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 21d

This is our letter to the World: join us for Day 3 of the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival. All of the programs are FREE and online — you can participate from anywhere in the world!

Space is limited, register in advance:
emilydickinsonmuseum.org/tell-it-slant-2025

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Emily Dickinson Museum @emilydickinson.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations to Arthur Sze!

Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 23d

NEWS: The Library of Congress is announcing the appointment of Arthur Sze as the nation’s 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2025-2026. Sze will begin his laureateship with a reading of his work on Thursday, Oct. 9 at the Library. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...