who will read their own works in dialogue with the works of their nineteenth-century predecessors, invoking the ghosts of poets such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Amy Lowell, Christopher Cranch, Henry David Thoreau and Angelina Weld Grimke. The program will pay tribute to the Athenæum’s rich historical and literary roots while demonstrating how a living and contemporary literary scene continues to be nourished by this tradition.