"Hocking finally decided on a game scenario in which players would mimic the physical act of writing. That led him to the Nintendo DS and its built-in stylus.

"Players of Hocking's fantasy game Muse would collect symbols from an environment based on Dickinson's Massachusetts -- things that might have influenced her writing, such as willow trees. Piecing the symbols together in a certain order, players would form the poems. Because Dickinson's poetry evolved conceptually over time, some symbols in the game would only unlock after players had already crafted some poems."

Initially I went in search of music for my class presentation. Dr. Rinehart had encouraged us, in light of Dickinson's almost constant use of hymnal meter, to consider finding some sort of musical accompaniment for our recitation. Unfortunately, the poem I had chosen, "Publication - is the Auction," has a trochaic meter not iambic. So the conventional tune "Amazing Grace" wouldn't work for me. I did, however, find two tunes that worked.

Since then, I've had the opportunity to read Andie Arthur's research paper on "'For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her' - Which is Everywhere." I was astounded at what Andie found. I discovered that I wanted to know more. Believe me -- what follows doesn't begin to cover it!

Clips and Bits on the Web

Emily Dickinson -- "The Soul Selects Her Own Society"

Emily Dickinson

"I'm nobody! Who are you?"

Habegger Interview, WGBH [See "Other" below]

Readings

Laura Lee Parrotti

Julie Harris

Actress Julie Harris reading from the poems and letters of Emily Dickinson. These selections were originally presented as the Tony Award- winning show "The Belle of Amherst."

• Part 1: This recording, made in 1961, includes "This is my letter to the world," "The soul selects her own society," "Pain has an element of blank," "Hope is the thing with feathers," "I'm nobody! Who are you?", a letter to T. W. Higginson from April 15, 1862, "I'll tell you how the sun rose," "I cautious scanned my little life," "If you were coming in the fall," "My river runs to thee," and a letter to T.W. Higginson from April 25, 1862.
• Part 2: This 1961 recording includes a letter to John L. Graves from late April of 1856, the poems "I died for beauty, but was scarce," "There came a wind like a bugle," "Safe in their alabaster chambers," "I years had been from home," "Love is anterior to life," a letter to Otis P. Lord from December 3, 1882, "I cannot live with you," and "My life closed twice before its close."
• Part 3: This selection includes the poems "Before I got my eye put out," "To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee," "A narrow fellow in the grass," a letter from Dickinson to Sally Jenkins in December of 1880, "A bird came down the walk," "What soft, cherubic creatures," "I taste a liquor never brewed," "Beside the autumn poets sing," "The heart asks pleasure first," "The sky is low, the clouds are mean," and "There's a certain slant of light."

The Norton Introduction to Literature Audio Companion

“A narrow fellow in the grass” 1:01
“After great pain a formal feeling comes” :53
“Because I could not stop for Death” 1:05
As read by Julie Harris, from Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson, Read by Julie Harris. © 1960, 1987, 1991 HarperCollins Publishers Inc. All rights reserved. Recorded by permission of HarperAudio, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
“I Dwell in Possibility” :32
Read by Garrison Keillor. From the audio recording “3 Doz. Poems.” Copyright © 1995 Minnesota Public Radio. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Minnesota Public Radio.

Videos

Voices & Visions: Emily Dickinson (1999)

Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant Of Light[VHS] (1996)

An Evening With Emily Dickinson

EMILY DICKINSON, A SELF-PORTRAIT

DICKINSON, EMILY VOICES & VISIONS

An exploration of the work and conjectures about the life of Emily Dickinson, includes dramatized incidents from her life and illustrated readings of her poetry, with commentary by poets, writers, critics, and biographers.

Music

Program Notes from the San Francisco Symphony

Gathering Paradise (2004)

Thomas's half-hour work is set to 19th century poems by Emily Dickinson, whose spare, powerful lines were displayed on a screen above the stage. Gathering Paradise reflects a cycle of light taking the listener from sunrise to sunset — or birth to death — and ending with Dickinson's "Soft as the massacre of Suns," and finally, "Image of Light, Adieu—".

Four Poems by Emily Dickinson

"Carol Herman's setting of four of Emily Dickinson's poems: Wild Nights — Wild Nights!; He fumbles at your Soul; I'm Nobody! Who are you?; and The Name of it is "Autumn". Separate playing score for the viol player, who is thereby encouraged to sing as well as play, in the spirit of Tobias Hume."

12 Poems of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson Songs

"Soprano Joyce Andrews has gathered together twenty-eight songs featuring the words of Emily Dickinson, but has entirely bypassed the familiar songs of Copland. (She also bypasses William Roy's "Nobody knows this little rose," which is perhaps the best known and most accessible of all Dickinson songs.)"

Plays

LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson

In LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson, stumped filmmaker Jim Wolpaw uses a decidedly unorthodox approach to create a documentary about the writer whose beautiful, haunting and cryptic poetry has never quite squared with her reputation as a sensitive spinster. Wolpaw's efforts to illuminate this ethereal subject - more than 150 years after her death - yield some hilariously frustrating results.

I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died

Tomlinson began animating as an undergraduate majoring in English at Cornell University. She continued her studies in animation at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, earning a master's degree. She also received an M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Her first film, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, a stirring and eerie interpretation of a poem by Emily Dickinson, won the animation prize at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Director's Choice in the Black Maria Festival, and several other awards. It appears on PBS stations and the BRAVO cable network, and is included on a video collection entitled Animation of the Apocalypse."

"Wild Nights With Emily"

"The University Theatre is presenting 'Wild Nights With Emily,' which tells the tale of Dickinson and, according to the play, her intimate relationship with longtime friend and sister-in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson."

"Written by Madeleine Olnek, 'Wild Nights' draws upon recently published copies of Dickinson's work. Research into the original copies of her poems and letters has shown just how much of the poet's work was censored and sanitized by close friends and relatives to remove any hints of an improper lesbian relationship." -- from the Oregon Daily Emerald

Emily

"Written by Great Barrington writer and film maker Mickey Friedman, this is not a copycat Belle of Amherst, the mono-drama made famous by Julie Harries and the title that most often comes to mind when associating theater and Emily Dickinson. (Actually, one of the first play's about Dickinson was a little known Pulitzer Prize winning play by Susan Glaspell, Alison's House)." -- from CurtainUp Berkshire Review, The Internet Theater Magazine

"Amherst Sabbath"

Noel will speak on "The Hymns of Emily Dickinson: the Power of Melody" based on his research connecting Emily's poetry with hymnody. Mr. Tipton will share his own spiritual awakening that occurred 20 years ago, leading to his founding of the Eventide Arts Festival which produced the wonderful "Amherst Sabbath," a play with music based on the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson.

The Jones Library, Inc.

"Remembering Emily Dickinson" (“Momentos Con Emily”)

Other

WGBH Forum Network Video

CD-ROM