Schedule of Events:

9:30am-12pm[Hybrid] - Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 6

A group reading of all 1,789 poems by Emily Dickinson over the course of 7 sessions. For this session, readers must be present on-site, but listeners are welcome both in-person and online. We will be reading from Ralph Franklin’s The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition. Treats inspired by Dickinson’s own love of baking will be served. Sign up as a listener by registering for the Festival, or learn more about signing up as a reader!

1-2:30pm [In-Person Workshop] - Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Legacy of Correspondence

Emily Dickinson is known to have written more than a thousand intimate and poetic letters in her lifetime. In this workshop, poets will discuss the necessity and ascendancy of correspondence in their own lives and work. Panelists will consider poetry’s deep intersection of private world and public sphere, and then ask participants to do the same as they pen their own letter-poems.
Featuring Caitlin McDonnell, Nicole Callihan, Tina Cane, and Zoë Ryder White.

3:30-5pm [In-Person Panel] - Thank You For The Surgery: The Poet-Editor Relationship

In a poetry world in which many editors are poets themselves, and a main avenue for becoming a poet is the workshop classroom, how might the editor-poet relationship create a correspondence that is at once formative, supportive, and expansive, and a relationship that is personally and professionally meaningful and ideally non-hierarchical?
Featuring Elizabeth Metzger, Callie Siskel, and Dorothea Lasky.

7-9pm [Hybrid Reading] - Headliner Night with Terrance Hayes and Krysten Hill

Join us in Emily Dickinson’s garden or virtually for a celebration of creativity and poetry! Our headlining poet, Terrance Hayes, will read from his work and discuss poetic practice and inspiration.