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Here's a collection of readings, lectures, and speeches from modern poets that focus on Emily Dickinson's influence on their work.

Okay, she didn't actually build it, but her legacy and posthumous fame did create the foundation that now runs the museum housed in Dickinson's old family home in Amherst, MA.

Check out this stage production on Emily Dickinson's life, called "The Belle of Amherst" and starring Julie Harris.

Back in the early '80s, "The Facts of Life" was a super-popular show. Even though Emily Dickinson had been considered one of America's great poets for decades, somehow the English teacher at a boarding school didn't recognize one of her pieces and neither did the judge of a poetry contest.

Bill Murray reads poetry to a bunch of construction workers who worked on Poets House in New York City. They only applaud for Dickinson. Also, it's Bill Murray.

We just really like how Julie Harris says "debauchee."

Here's a choir arrangement of the poem.

There is one very famous daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, but in 2013 a collector discovered another daguerreotype that just may be an image of the poet at about 30 years old. It hasn't been verified yet, but a lot of people are pretty confident it's the one and only Belle of Amherst with her arm around a Miss Kate Scott Turner.

Here's how most of us know Emily's face.

Some call him crazy, some call him a genius, and some call him blasphemous to Dickinson's memory, but Jerome Charyn wrote The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel anyway.

Yep, someone actually put together a bunch of clips of movies where Emily Dickinson is mentioned or her poetry is read.