The Belle of Amherst

Writer, actress and singer Yvonne Hudson portrays poet Emily Dickinson in William Luce’s The Belle of Amherst, the initial offering of the new Poets Corner series. Weaving together poetry, letters, dramatic flashbacks and narrative, Luce’s dramatic portrait illuminates the people and events that shaped Dickinson’s increasingly secluded life. With the wit and guile of a master of words, the poet shares with us her burst of creative brilliance as she pens her exquisite poetry and unfolds the mysteries of her eccentric love affair with language. Of Dickinson’s 1,700 poems, only a handful were published during her lifetime; only after her death in 1886, at the age of 56, did she find acclaim as a poet.