Schedule of Events:

12-2:15pm [Virtual Program] - Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon: Part 3

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 by registering for the Festival, or learn more about signing up as a reader!

2:30-4pm [Virtual Workshop] - Letters to the World: Epistolary Creativity Workshop

In this gentle and good-humored generative writing program, participants will play with letter-writing as a form of poetic and personal expression while drawing inspiration from Dickinson’s own letters. Guided freewriting sessions will be followed by opportunities for sharing and reflection. No experience necessary.
Featuring Sylvie Cathrall.

4:30-6pm [Virtual Panel] - From Blank to Blank: How and Why to Use Blackout Poetry

What do acts of erasure afford a writer? In this interactive workshop, we’ll be looking closely at resonant models of erasure (including Nicole Sealey, Sarah Sloat, Tracy K. Smith, and Jennifer Sperry Steinorth), and exploring the effects of different blackout poetry strategies.
Featuring Matt Donovan and Jenny George, authors of We are Not Where We Are, an erasing of Thoreau’s Walden.

7:30-9pm [Virtual Workshop] - The Interior and the Other: on poetic and psychic transformation

What can poetry teach us about psychoanalysis, and the process of sharing one’s inner self with another? What can therapeutic or healing work teach us about writing poems? In this panel, two poets who have written about and undergone forms of therapy will explore the art and practice of writing about interiority and healing.
Featuring Ayelet Amittay and Dana Levin.