U.S. poet Sylvia Plath once said, “Opinions are like orgasms… mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.” The quote often appears in meme form, using graphics created by popular ...

Poet Sylvia Plath's words offer a quiet truth about life's journey. Her quote highlights how enduring patience and ...

In today’s world, this quote feels uncannily accurate. We live in an age of endless comparison and infinite options. Social ...

Sylvia Plath should be remembered as more than a poster girl for despair. Sylvia Plath is known equally for her prowess as a writer and for the tragic end to her life. But, as Tori Marchiony reports, ...

What does the metaphor of the bell jar reveal about the life and work of Sylvia Plath ’55? Associate Professor of Anthropology Colin Hoag and his students have been exploring that question in a ...

Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. She recently served as the scholarly consultant for the BBC documentary Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar. She is ...

Plath's recipe cards and rolling pin reflect her love of cooking—and her conflicted relationship with domestic life. Courtesy of Sotheby's Personal possessions of the late poet Sylvia Plath, including ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. A photograph of Sylvia Plath on her grave at St ...

Not only poems, but poets die miserably every day for lack of what is found in each other’s work. Anthony Hecht (1923-2004), winner of the 1968 Pulitzer Prize, and Sylvia Plath taught at the same time ...

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 than six ...