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April 9, 2024: At the Emily Dickinson Museum LIVE

It’s National Poetry Month and what better way to celebrate than at the home of the area’s most famous and possibly most prolific poets!

We get a quick tour of the Emily Dickinson Museum. Located right on Main Street in Amherst, the institution has just reopened the Evergreens building to the public. We chat with Executive Director Jane Weld and Senior Programs Director Brooke Steinhauser to give us a taste of the poet’s life, a brief history of how the homestead became a museum, as well as why having the public bear witness to restoration is vital.

One of the many museum offerings is Phosphorescence, a program that evolved during the pandemic to showcase the work of contemporary artists and more. We talk to three poets who have participated in the program, Nicole Young-Martin, Erica Charis-Molling, and Abigail Chabitnoy, and they share their work both on and off the page.

Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.