Michael Allyn Wells

How we need another soul. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confid...

The little toy wife Erased, sigh, sigh. Four babies and a cocker. Sylvia Plath - Amnesic 

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I...

        "I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."- Sylvia Plath

 Poet Tess Taylor reflects on how we read Sylvia Plath's poetry,   50 years after her death. Source NPR 

"I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but I won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other po...

"And By the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The wo...

Today is the birthday of Sylvia Plath. Plath is perhaps one of the first poet that caught my attention in such a way to interest me in poe...

"A door opens, a door shuts. In between you had a glimpse: a garden, a person, a rainstorm, a dragonfly, a heart, a city. I think of th...

  Ted Hughes (left) is honored today by his inclusion at the Poet's Corner in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.  The practi...

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all ...

At approximately 2:30 a.m. I was awaken and strangely my thoughts were of Sylvia Plath.  At first I thinking how strange this is the anniver...

The New Statesman publishes a previously unseen work by the late poet laureate Ted Hughes that shed some light on the final days of Sylvia...

Today is the anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963. It’s hard for me to understand that all these years later in some quarters the deb...

Today is the birthday of Sylvia Plath