"We turn not older with years, but newer every day" - E. Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10 1830. She is now recognized as one of the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice, along with Walt Whitman. Although Dickinson was poetically prolific during her life, her work was neither published nor acclaimed until after her death in Cambridge on May 15 1886.