"Vesuvius at Home": A Poetry Workshop

Massachusetts Center for the Book

A Poetry Workshop Responding to Emily Dickinson and Objects from the Amherst History Center

Amherst History Center of the Amherst Historical Society

Presented by the Emily Dickinson Museum, this writing workshop with Jan Freeman explores poems by Dickinson and objects from the collection of the Amherst Historical Society that will help participants express emotions, memories, and observations about home. Participants will engage in exercises that open their perceptions and strengthen their use of personal details as metaphor. Experienced and inexperienced poets will open their imaginations and express their unique truths. Prompts will be provided. Recommended for writers age 17+. About the facilitator: Jan Freeman is the recipient of a 2026 Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant and the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Blue Structure (Calypso Editions) and a chapbook. Her poems are forthcoming or recently appeared in Patterson Review, Ploughshares, Plume, POETRY, Salamander, Tar River Review, and many other journals and anthologies. She was founding director of Paris Press, where she published Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Correspondence With Susan Huntington Dickinson. She directs the MASS MoCA Writing Through Art Poetry Retreats. <a href="https://www.janfreeman.net" title="https://www.janfreeman.net" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.janfreeman.net</a>

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