A passage from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, now widely known online as the fig tree metaphor, has become a rallying cry for ...

The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...

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

Ted met Sylvia Plath at Cambridge University. At that time, Ted’s parents had become firmly ensconced at their home in ...

From the renowned halls of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama to the vibrant stages of Edinburgh, Olivia Dodd is carving out a unique space for poetry at the Fringe. With The Poetess, her ...

In our age of distraction, the arts appear to be responding in kind, shrinking and streamlining themselves to capture what ...

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

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BBC radio interview, Sylvia Plath described how she first met Ted Hughes: “I happened to be at Cambridge… I’d read some of ...

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Plath’s posthumous poetry collection changed the cultural landscape on its release in 1965. Its grace and power grip us still ...

The first novel by Heather Clark, an acclaimed biographer of Sylvia Plath, is about a Harvard senior who falls for a ...