Retracing Dickinson's wild — at least for her — excursion to D.C.
Retracing Dickinson’s wild — at least for her — excursion to D.C. “A Poetic Dialogue,” a silhouette sculpture by Michael Virzi, depicts poets Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost observing social distancing, six feet toe-to-toe, in their fictional conversation in Amherst’s Sweetser Park. It’s just down the street from the Emily Dickinson Museum, which includes The Dickinson Homestead, the poet’s birthplace and home from 1855 to 1886. Though the two poets were alive during the same time, they never actually had the chance to meet as Dickinson died in 1886, 31 years before Frost fir...