Art is the greatest form of human expression. This form of expression has been essential in vocalizing pain as a common human experience. Confessional poetry perfectly embodies this. It focuses on ...

Source: https://pixabay.com/en/to-write-machine-desk-flowers-1700787/ We are halfway through April, National Poetry Month, so it’s a great time to release any ...

Back when America was careening from the Eisenhower era—the “tranquillized Fifties,” as Robert Lowell called them—toward the Age of Aquarius, American poetry was undergoing a dramatic shift as well. A ...

The “confessional poetry movement” of the late ’50s is practically a misnomer. Comprised of tortured, self-destructive geniuses like Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, the movement was ...

Editor’s Note: Patricia Grisafi, PhD, is a freelance writer whose work has been featured in The Guardian, Salon, NBC, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mary Sue, The Daily Dot and elsewhere. The views ...

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The material is "likely the only major archive related to Sylvia Plath that isn’t already in an institutional library," according to a Yale librarian.