Saturday, May 15, 2pm. This is a free online event with the St. George Library Center & Staten Island OutLOUD. To participate, please visit the Facebook Page for the St George Library Center: www.facebook.com/StGeorgeNYPL – There you can RSVP for this event. Then the library will email you the link you’ll need on May 15. Thanks!

In partnership with Staten Island OutLoud, the St. George Library invites you to “Open Me Carefully: A live reading of the letters of Emily Dickinson.” Emily Dickinson’s letters are as prolific as her poetry, and this event will honor that. Participants are invited to read letters of their choosing , or can listen.Copies of “The Essential Emily Dickinson” are available for free at the St. George Library.

Digitized copies of Dickinson’s Letters can be found at these sources:

Emily Dickinson Museum: https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org

Archive.org:http://archive.emilydickinson.org/wkintronew.htm