Michael Allyn Wells

Technorati Tags: Sylvia Plath , poetry , writing , life as a poet   Saturday my wife and I took the dogs and went off to the dog park.  It...

A young Belarusian poet named Valzhyna Mort (Martynava) was featured in the recent issue of P&W . From that article came this great line...

Diane Middlebrook - perhaps best known for her book, Anne Sexton- a biography , died this weekend of cancer. Middlebrook was 68 and had taug...

I've finished reading Giving Up - The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker. This small memoir now joins the dozens of biographic...

Autumn poetry is a dime a dozen. It is prolific I suppose because there are such quick and sharp changes in the images right before our eye...

It was 75 years ago today (27 October 1932) that Sylvia Plath was born to Otto Emil Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath in Boston, Massachusett...

Picked up three interesting books at the Library yesterday. They are: Breakfast Served Any Time of Day - by Donald Hall Your Own Sylvia - b...

Arts diary: Revealed: Sylvia Plath's unseen art, discovered in the attic Art & Architecture Guardian Unlimited Arts : "Painting...

I read yesterday of a young writer who won a university sponsored fellowship to live and work at the Frost Place for most of the summer. I...

Sunday I was able to carve out some writing time that was very productive. Worked on some drafts and was happy with what was developing. Sun...

55 Eltisley Avenue, in Cambridge is for sale. The address was the home of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes from October of 1956 to May of ...

What a gratifying way to start your Monday morning. You open you email and read: "Thanks for submitting these. I'm happy to accept...

A stone can masquerade where no heart is And virgins rise where lustful Venus lay: Never try to trick me with a kiss. ~Sylvia Plath from Nev...

Some time back, on one of my Wednesday Poet Series features, I highlighted a North Western poet by the name of Kelli Russell Agodon . This ...

This weekend I did little writing. This is pretty unusual for me. I have often gone about my days somewhat in a parallel to the routine t...

Enjoyed Christmas Eve with our immediate family. My wife and I, as well as all but our oldest daughter (who lives is out of the area [sigh...