Lecture—Amherst is Paradise: Emily Dickinson's Place of Sense, with Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro

Name: Lecture—Amherst is Paradise: Emily Dickinson's Place of Sense, with Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro
Start: 2025-08-24T14:00:00-05:00
Location: 521 Main Ave, Moorhead, MN, United States, Minnesota 56560

Schedule

Sun, 24 Aug, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

521 Main Ave, Moorhead, MN, United States, Minnesota 56560 | Moorhead, MN

Join us for a Sunday salon with MSUM professors emeriti Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro to hear more about the muse and spark point of this year's Midwestern theme (To Make a Prairie: Meditations on Poetry, Ecology, and Place): Emily Dickinson.
About the lecture:
Is Emily Dickinson more—or less—than the sixteen-year-old whose 1847 daguerreotype image has burned itself in our consciousness and memory for more than a century and a quarter? Why did she rarely leave her birth place of Amherst, Massachusetts? Where was Dickinson most at home? Where were her sacred spaces? These are a few of the questions Coghill and Tammaro will contemplate in their presentation, “Amherst is Paradise: Emily Dickinson’s Place of Sense.”
About your lecturers:
Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro, emeriti professors of English from Minnesota State University Moorhead, are the editors of Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson, recipient of a 2001 Minnesota Book Award and a 2001 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal award for design and production.
Together, they also edited companion “Visiting” anthologies about Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and William Carlos Williams—all published by the University of Iowa Press. They reside in Moorhead.