The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst is hosting its annual Tell It Slant Poetry Festival this week, including marathon readings of Dickinson’s work. The married couple created the new exhibit, which combines domestic items found among Emily Dickinson’s belongings with words both by and about the 19th century poet. And then twas otherwise.”“The stereotypes around Emily Dickinson are that she wrote about nature, she wrote about death. (Karen Brown/NEPM)There’s one wall where posters are cut in the shape of wallpaper fragments from Emily Dickinson’s room. For example, Bouton said, Emily Dickinson was an independent woman at a time when that was very difficult.