Heather Clark’s massive ravishing biography of Sylvia Plath, “Red Comet,” published in 2020, might have seemed like the last word on the poet’s mercurial life and tragic death. But more ...

Books & the Arts / In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without ...

to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” —William Carlos Williams. Not only poems, but poets die miserably every day for lack of what is found in ...

U.S. poet Sylvia Plath once said, “Opinions are like orgasms… mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.” Rating: Misattributed (About this rating?) For years, users on ...

In “Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne focuses on Plath’s life and poetry as exemplars of the struggle for liberation from a patriarchal value system that celebrated marriage and ...

D id Sylvia Plath predict it all? That’s what we’d like to think. In her work, we’re always looking for prophecies about her life – and when I say her life, I mostly mean her death.

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

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 ...