ICA Brings Dickinson to the HarborWalk

Gail Mazur, Robert Pinsky, Lloyd Schwartz, and Rosanna Warren will be reading at the ICA on the HarborWalk at 6:30 pm tomorrow, Thursday, May 3. Free first-come, first-serve tickets will be available an hour before the reading.

The ICA and UMass Boston are celebrating Emily Dickinson - the ultimate Massachusetts literary institution - tomorrow night. The ICA is installing a visual display of Dickinson's 695 (As if the Sea should part), and four poets will be reading Dickinson's work and their own.

The poets are Emerson College writer-in-residence Gail Mazur, former poet laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky, UMB professor and Phoenix classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz, and Award of Merit in Poetry winner Rosanna Warren. All of these poets have so many awards, accolades, and positions that we can't list them all in a short blog post.

To help prepare you for the event, we're offering Dickinson's poem (good thing she tended to keep it short):

As if the Sea should part
And show a further Sea—
And that—a further—and the Three
But a presumption be—

Of Periods of Seas—
Unvisited of Shores—
Themselves the Verge of Seas to be—
Eternity—is Those—