By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Taylor Swift is related to the great American poet Emily Dickinson, popular genealogy site Ancestry has revealed. The 34-year-old pop superstar and the 19th century poet are sixth cousins thrice ...

"If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson's great ... album evermore drew inspiration from the poet. Not only was it announced on Dickinson's Dec. 10 birthday, but as a social ...

The weather has recently evoked the image of an oversized leather chair, a crackling fireplace, a rich mug of hot chocolate ...

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Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...

Massachusetts will soon have its first-ever poet laureate. Gov. Maura Healey this week signed an executive order creating the ...