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Member Book Club—Echoes of Poetry: Emily Dickinson and the Saint Louis Art Museum Collection
Member Lecture and Book Club events are available exclusively to Museum Members. Join today!
Celebrate Emily Dickinson’s 195th birthday with a special Member Book Club—classic literature edition—featuring Amy Torbert, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of American Art.
Dickinson’s poetry, with its profound reflections on love, nature, life, and mortality, has captivated readers for generations. Join Torbert as she delves into Dickinson’s enduring themes and connects them with evocative works from the Museum’s collection. This exploration honors Dickinson’s literary genius while celebrating the intersection of poetry and art.
Purchase The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson at the Museum Shop. Members save 10% on of all Museum Shop purchases.
Amy Torbert, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Associate Curator of American Art
Book Selection
This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.
Only 11 of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections—some of them featuring liberally “edited” versions of the poems—did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson’s bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson’s extraordinary poetic genius.
This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote.
Ticket information
Advance tickets can be reserved in person or through MetroTix using your Member ticket code. All tickets reserved through MetroTix incur a service charge; the service charge is waived for tickets reserved at the Museum. For your ticket code or more information, visit slam.org/MemberLectures.
What is the Member Lecture Series?
Member Lectures are exclusive, live, in-person events held in the Museum’s Farrell Auditorium. Members enjoy a deeper look at the fascinating changes and ongoing scholarship by the Museum’s curators and researchers. Learn more here.
After Hours Event Entry
This event occurs after the Museum closes to the public at 5 pm. The Museum will reopen for event attendees at 5:30 pm.
Please enter through the East Building entrance or the parking garage at 5:30 pm.
