Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers. Still, the underlying thread of truth is ...

I have always had an affinity for writing, so much so that one of my earliest memories stems from my fourth-grade English ...

For certain, we in the Berkshires are proud of our gardens, and there is a delight in the air when spring weather invites the ...

Poetry transforms into dance in Ballet Co.Laboratory’s production of “Emily Dickinson: The Untold Verse.” Choreographer Genevieve Waterbury creates an arc of Dickinson’s life illuminated through her ...

April’s a hotshot month. Everyone’s celebrating something. On the 17th — who knows what year, I couldn’t read the writing — ...

I don’t know why I had the audacity to go and see it, I didn’t dream I’d go through with it . . . but once I stepped into the ...

Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...

W hen first we meet the title character of Ron Currie’s superb “The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne,” it’s 1968 and ...

Emily Dickinson is a household name, not many people know specific poems of hers … when you first start to read her work, it can be intimidating,” Geneviev ...

Maybe you’re in Emily Dickinson mode. I suggest “The Outlet,” for a poem, but I’ll admit there are probably better ones that represent whatever you might feel right now. For the record ...

This Friday, you may just run into Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday at Proof Lancaster, or Sylvia Plath at the Lancaster Art Vault.

Heginbotham, a former professor of English and scholar of Emily Dickinson, was delighted to learn that ... Heginbotham thinks of a few lines from the Dickinson poem, "A Deed knocks first at Thought." ...