Sylvia Plath poem, November 1950 Seventeen Magazine.
Another old Ebay find. {PDF file.}
Actual magazine is on its way to the Plath collection at the Lilly Library in Bloomington. (Thanks to Anne Haines for suggesting it a long time ago.)
If there are any copyright objections I’ll remove the PDF file.
Here’s today’s news:
- — “Perhaps the most refreshingly honest set of guidelines I’ve ever read.” —
- — George Harrison’s teenage angst… —
- — Grand Rapids poetry therapist harnesses the power of words —
- — Almost all his life Jack Kerouac played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats never knew about.
— - — fallen idols: Walcott joins Shelley and Byron —
- — Recommended Summer Reading – Evie Shockley —
- — Scarred For Life. Physically, Not So Much Mentally —
- — Christopher Ricks speaks with Giles Harvey about Posthumous Keats, Stanley Plumly’s recent biography of John Keats, and about the poet’s death and his idealized “immediate afterlife.” [mp3] —
- — 20th Annual Independent Press Award Winners Announced —
- — The Shakespeare Sonnets, from 1 to 154 – the full links —
- — First a filly wins the Preakness, and now, a 301-year male only streak is broken with the appointment of Ruth Padel as the new Oxford professor of poetry, the first woman to hold the post since it was established in 1708. —
- — Wordplay, May 17: Robin Blaser [mp3] —
- — This is something new in the life of poetry, and I’m excited to be part of it and to see where it may take us. —




