Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

when a young American woman in red shoes and wearing a lot of lipstick approached and introduced herself as Sylvia Plath. “My girlfriend retreated, and Sylvia began to quote some of my poems ...

Fainlight began writing poetry as a child – composing rhymes ... she has had to fight to be seen outside two contexts: being a “woman” poet (in the 1960s, if there was an anthology of ...

The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by ... Smith graduate Sylvia Plath--writes for the first time of their troubled marriage. Plath committed suicide in 1963, ...

“Red was your colour,” wrote her husband, Ted Hughes, in a poem ... was Sylvia Plath wearing her lipstick or was her lipstick wearing her? This power dichotomy was Plath’s primary subject. Like many ...