On a quiet weekday afternoon, Flint-based poet Vivian Kao can often be found walking through Buckham Gallery with a clipboard in hand. As ...

For Sylvia Plath, less was more -- at least, when it came to her favorite cocktail. Discover which iconic tipple was beloved ...

A wonderful gift, the set includes The War Poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, High Windows by Philip Larkin, Crow by Ted Hughes, Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney, The Waste ...

Peter Steinberg was told that everyone goes through a Sylvia Plath phase. “Mine,” he says, “has lasted 30 years.” But after the publication on December 3 of The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath – the ...

Plath uses a fig tree as a metaphor for the daunting prospect of choosing where you want your future to be heading. She depicts how she sees her life branching out before her like a fig tree, and how ...

Loving Sylvia Plath, subtitled “A Reclamation”, by Emily Van Duyne, is a case study from this genre, a bold and idiosyncratic volume that takes the traditional reader of Ariel into a world of ...

Ruth Fainlight is an American-born poet, now eighty-eight, who moved to England at the age of sixteen. Sylvia Plath enthusiasts will recognize her as the dedicatee of “Elm”; fans of the novelist Alan ...

A new look at Sylvia Plath focuses on her violent marriage The Boston-born poet’s 1963 suicide cut short a brilliant career. By Wendy Smith Globe correspondent, Updated July 9, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

In popular culture, Plath’s name is often used as shorthand to represent a troubled, complicated or introspective woman, despite the fact she was much more than that. Del Rey seems to understand Plath ...

Sylvia Plath, whose 1963 novel “The Bell Jar” proved to be a watershed moment in the history of 20th century feminism and is often required reading in many high school English classes across ...

Gilmore Girls fans know that the image of Rory reading The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath in season one, episode 12 is nothing short of iconic. To jog your memory, Rory reads this book ...

Their findings are on display in an exhibit created in collaboration with the Botanic Garden of Smith College that opens September 15 in Lyman Plant House and Conservatory. The Bell Jars: Lyman ...