Events & Calendars Emily Dickinson Poetry Discussion Group

Session Topic: "Poems About Poets & Poetry"

In honor of National Poetry Month, the April discussion will focus on some of Emily Dickinson’s poems about poets and poetry. For comparison’s sake, we will also look at other poets’ poems on the same topic, including poetry by Marianne Moore, Archibald Macleish and Pablo Neruda. Some of the Dickinson selections are familiar; others less so.

The fee for Emily Dickinson Museum members is $12/session; the fee for non-members is $15/session.

Leader: Bruce M. Penniman taught writing, speech and literature at Amherst Regional High School from 1971 to 2007. He is the site director of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project and lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1999 he was Massachusetts Teacher of the Year and a finalist for National Teacher of the Year, and he is the author of Building the English Classroom: Foundations, Support, Success (NCTE, 2009). He has served as a teacher curriculum mentor in all three NEH "Emily Dickinson: Person, Poetry and Place" workshops and has facilitated discussions in the Poetry Discussion Group on topics ranging from "Emily Dickinson and the Bible" to "Emily Dickinson and Science."