#dickinson*

[elizabethminkel]

My latest Atlas Obscura column is live! This one was a total delight to report: back in my college town for a visit last month, I stopped by the (Emily) Dickinson Homestead to talk with its staff about their recent acquisition of props, furniture, etc. from the Apple TV+ show, which now makes the house work on multiple fan-tourism levels!

I really loved hearing about how they try to meet different kinds of fans' needs in different ways—especially fitting since the property has been welcoming Dickinson "pilgrims" for more than a century:

“We like to say that everybody who identifies as a fan who’s coming through our doors has their own Emily Dickinson,” Steinhauser says. “They encountered her poetry in school, or they stumbled across her during the pandemic—because there were all these memes about her as a ‘Queen Recluse’—or they watched Apple TV+, and they loved the idea of a gay Emily Dickinson, and they want to connect with that.” ... Visitors bring these different versions ... “wanting to touch something of that, and it’s our very difficult job to meet them wherever they are, with whatever version of Dickinson they have connected with, and try to walk with them a little further down the road with whatever knowledge we can provide to them.”

P.S. if you're a Dickinson fan, by pure coincidence, this wound up going live on the first day of this year's Tell It Slant Poetry Festival, which runs through the weekend. It's a hybrid event and it's free!

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AYO EDEBIRI Dickinson (2019—2021) S02E08, I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

[zendeyas]

Hailee Steinfeld & Ella Hunt as Emily and Sue – Dickinson (2019) 'You Cannot Put a Fire Out'

[lemonbreelnd]

it's all i have to bring today - this, and my heart beside - this, and my heart, and all the fields - and all the meadows wide -

[wendytorr4nce]

the loneliness of being queer

to quote trixie mattel: gay people are so broken

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DICKINSON  - ‘You Cannot Put a Fire Out’ 2.10

[fadeintoyou1993]

Dickinson (2019-2021) 1.01 | "Because I Could Not Stop"

[cinematv]

You know this, this right here, this is better than any poem.

[tessagray]

DICKINSON (2019-2021)

[ke-cerry]

God, I just love a good Period Drama..

[natdocx]

Sue kissing Emily's hands

2.10 // 3.08 // 3.09

[reggieslocket]

thank god for wlw period dramas

[gaygirlcity]

🥀

[itsvillaneve]

i just want to be yours

[oliveoomph]

Hailee Steinfeld

[forbescaroline]

235 FAVORITE SHIPS OF ALL TIME (ranked by my followers) 87. emily dickinson and sue gilbert - dickinson