The Barry S. Brooks Center for Music Research and Documentation, in connection with the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s theatrical concert “Because I Could not Stop: An Encounter with Emily Dickinson” presents “The Lives of Emily Dickinson: Poetry, Philosophy, Sexuality,” a special conversation between Jerome Charyn, author of A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21^st Century, and James Melo, musicologist for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century and Senior Editor at RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.