April ’25: Hair Moss and Partridgeberry

Books: The Journals of John Cheever (carries over)TV: Celebrity Big Brother & Black MirrorTheatre: The Other Place (National Theatre at … More

March ’25: Can You Smell The Cigars?

Books: Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes and Christopher Reid & Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year’s Turning by … More

Author’s Note: These entries are typically relayed as a play-by-play, but this month’s (and possibly continually) will be a collage … More

In 1862, Christina Rossetti published No, Thank You, John: a poem about a woman (quite firmly) rejecting the affections of … More

Books Read: Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation by Emily Van Duyne, Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler, The Obscene Madame D … More

Books Read: New York City 1979 by Kathy Acker, Modern Nature by Derek Jarman, The Haunting of Hill House by … More

Reading: Armadale by Wilkie Collins / Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot / Everyman Pocket Poets: Art and Artists “Beware of … More

The fresh, pink jelly of twenty-seven trips around the sun hits my soul. I spend the day eating cake and … More

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. … More

“Now the babies are crying, I must take them out to tea.” —The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II “April … More