sylvia plath

When Kimberlyn and Leilani walk the Camino in June, they will not stop in Santiago de Compostela, but will continue on for several more days to Finisterre, “the End of the World.”  Listen as they explore the spirituality, traditions, and prehistoric history of this magical place. 

Their check-ins:  Kimberlyn’s profound experience at the finals of an international piano competition; Leilani’s inspirational experience with TikTok cooking videos

Mentioned in the episode: Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Finisterre.” 

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Do Black men in Hollywood have to put on a dress to succeed in Hollywood? Langston and David try on different ideas with Devon Walker (Saturday Night Live) about this popular barbershop conspriacy. They name the Mount Rushmore of Black men in dresses and what does it mean to be masculine. Musicians take a swing at putting on dresses, but are they really contributing to the conversation. Two words: Sylvia Plath 

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My regular Open Mic audience knows that over the years most of the writers who have appeared here have been mystery or thriller or crime fiction authors, though every now and again I bust out with a nonfiction author – memoir, or biography, or perhaps a journalist like myself- and I’ve even had playwrights and a few songwriters. But today will be the first time I have ever been joined by a poet. And not just any poet, but the truly wonderful and talented L.J. Sysko, who joins me today from her home in Delaware. 

For Go Ask Ali’s Season 3 finale Ali is joined by her bestie, actress and philanthropist Mariska Hargitay, and the “best known life coach in America” (NPR, USA Today) Martha Beck. The three ladies just have a little chat about wisdom, courage, truth, integrity, love, abandonment and aging. No biggie, just everything. Oh, and masturbation.

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The seventh episode of 72 Weeks involves discussions surrounding English, Chemistry, Oxford University traditions, the importance of reading, what makes a good Headteacher, why teaching is a rewarding career option, and the wonder that is Taylor Swift.   Recorded in October 2022.

The Sylvia Plath literary festival celebrates the life and work of one of the twentieth century’s most influential poets.  Taking place over the weekend of the 21st to 23rd of October in Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall in West Yorkshire, the festival will feature events led by and featuring contemporary poets.  In this podcast we hear from some of the poets appearing at the festival with their thoughts on Plath and readings of their poems. 

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 You can find out about each of the poets featured in this podcast via the following links
Polly Atkin. https://pollyatkin.com/
Jessica Mookherjee https://thejessicapoet.com/
Daniel Fraser https://danieljamesfraser.wordpress.com/
Michael Crowley http://michaelcrowley.co.uk/
Maureen Boyle https://twitter.com/BoyleMo

 Find out more about the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, order the After Sylvia anthology and book tickets for in-person and online events visit the festival’s website here  https://plathfest.co.uk/
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https://www.instagram.com/plathfest/

 You can hear more from Polly Atkin by listening to her interview on the new Alternative Stories produced Seren Poetry Podcast.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2035359

 And hear from Plathfest director Sarah Corbett in an extended interview in this podcast  https://www.buzzsprout.com/411730/11406109 

This podcast has been presented by Chris Gregory and Tiffany Clare.  Each of the contributors recorded their own poems for this programme. 

Production, sound design and editing were by Chris Gregory 

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How does what we eat impact who we become? This episode of Meat and Three explores what diet can tell us about the biographies of famous chefs, writers, and iconic locales. We’ll hear about how Sylvia Plath’s private recounting of her meals became a Twitter sensation. Then, we’ll talk with another writer looking to recreate some other famous literary foods. We’ll also consider how Julia Child’s life story and legacy is being re-developed for a new generation of audiences. Plus, a story about how a city’s history can be viewed by its food.

Further Reading and Listening:

- Eric Kim’s debut cookbook, Korean American: Tastes Like Home is out now. He was interviewed on Inside Julia’s Kitchen.

- For more about what Sylvia ate, follow @whatsylviaate on Twitter. And check out Rebecca Brill’s writing here.

- You can check out The Paris Review to read an archive of Valerie Stivers’ work.

- Listen to Inside Julia’s Kitchen. You can hear more of Daniel Goldfarb here and more of Blake Davis here.

- Check out the Big City Food Biographies series here. Learn more about Judith Dern and Liz Williams on their websites.

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This week George talks to the lovely Vanessa McCausland about writing, life, success, her former job as a journalist interviewing celebrities and everything in between. This is a wonderful chill conversation that will leave you wearing a smile. 

Page One, produced and hosted by author Holly Lynn Payne, celebrates the craft that goes into writing the first sentence, first paragraph and first page of your favorite books. The first page is often the most rewritten page of any book because it has to work so hard to do so much—hook the reader. We interview master storytellers on the struggles and stories behind the first page of their books.

About the guest author:

Lee Kravetz is a science journalist and the author of two acclaimed works of non-fiction: Strange Contagion and SuperSurvivors, both published by HarperWave—which dovetail perfectly with The Last Confession of Slyvia P, his first work of fiction that explores manic depression in the lives of some of the greatest writers of the early 20th century. Kravetz has worked in publicity for some of the biggest publishers in the world and has written for print and television, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Psychology Today, The Daily Beast, The San Francisco Chronicle, and PBS. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family and is a member of the Writers Grotto and serves on the panel faculty for LitCamp. You can visit him at www.leekravetz.com and follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/leekravetz and Instagram @leekravetz

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Holly Lynn Payne is an award-winning novelist and writing coach, and the former CEO and founder of Booxby, a startup built to help authors succeed. Her debut novel, The Virgin's Knot, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers book. Her books have been published in eleven countries and translated into nine languages. Her most recent novel, Damascena:The Tale of Roses and Rumi, has been optioned for a film series. She's currently at work on her first YA crossover novel inspired by her nephew with Down syndrome. She lives in Marin County with her daughter and enjoys mountain biking, surfing and hiking with her dog. To learn more about her private writing coaching services, please visit hollylynnpayne.com.

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Shoutouts: This episode supports National Poetry Month, where you can sign up to receive a poem-a-day curated in April by Naomi Shihab Nye and the 22in'22 a Zibby Books Initiative which encourages all of us to visit 22 bookstores in 2022. How awesome is that? Great idea Zibby Books! As an author, I love independent bookstores and believe they play a huge role in our communities, nurturing our love of literature and enriching our lives with programming and other events that promote literacy, bringing readers and writers together. Living here in the San Francisco Bay Area with more independent bookstores per capita than anywhere else in the country, I will be visiting many of my favorite bookstores in the coming months with my daughter in tow. Wherever this finds you, I hope you do the same. And while you get a great new book or two, please tell them about the Page One Podcast. Thank you for supporting your nearest bookstore and the authors whose work they carry. Happy browsing to all! 

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Unlike many authors, Jodi Picoult decided to take on COVID-19 in Wish You Were Here, because Picoult says, "we need to remember everything we got wrong while we were learning what this disease is".

Also, the salvation of poetry in Brendan Cowell's Plum and The Kindness of Birds by Filipino Australian writer Merlinda Bobis.

This week Vanessa from ‘The Mindful Narrowboat’ vlog got me thinking and so this week we begin to explore how our knowledge and (perhaps) attitudes to fungi are changing and leading us back to older ways of thinking about the environment and our place within it.

Journal entry:

“21st October, Thursday

A Hunter’s Moon swinging high
 Across a highwayman’s sky
 Of racing clouds.

The streets of Birmingham run wet
 With the glittering jewels of
 Brake lights and shop front signs. 

Later, 
 A gull soars through the 
 Thermal canyons and valleys
 Under a sky of cut sapphire. 

Later still,
 The Plough silently revolves over the boat
 Needle sharp shards of light
 At the moment, tilting north. ”   

Episode Information

In this episode I read the following poems:
 Emily Dickinson’s ‘The Mushroom is the elf of plants’
Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mushrooms’ ,
You can hear Sylvia Plath’s own reading of her poem here: Sylvia Plath reads ‘Mushrooms.’                    

I also read excerpts from:
John Clare’s (1827) from ‘October’ in The Shepherd’s Calendar
Wendell Berry’s (2017) The World-Ending Fire: Essential Wendell Berry published by Catapult.
Robin Wall Kimmerer (2020) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants published by Penguin.  It is also published in the shorter volume:  The Democracy of Species also published by Penguin as part of their ‘Green Ideas’ series.  

I also refer to the works of:
Suzanne Simard (2021)

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“The story that I want to tell you is about loneliness…”

So begins today’s story from Dr. Fay Bound Alberti.

For further reading:
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Episode transcript:
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As an Iranian woman, writing poetry about her own love and lust launched Forough Farrokhzad into infamy. She broke the barriers of sex and society in her poetry, but would suffer for it during her short life. Sin would get her in trouble but it would also be her ultimate salvation. So too for those desperate to read about it. 

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Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which has been shortlisted for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, which was a Choice/American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title; and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972, which won the Donald J. Murphy Prize and Robert Rhodes Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies. She has received a Public Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Biography Fellowship from the Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY. She is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield in Yorkshire, England, and lives outside of New York City.

David Trinidad is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and collaborations.  These include Swinging on a Star (Turtle Point Press, 2017), Notes on a Past Life (BlazeVOX [books], 2016), Peyton Place: A Haiku Soap Opera (Turtle Point, 2013), and Dear Prudence: New and Selected Poems (Turtle Point, 2011).  Digging to Wonderland is forthcoming from Turtle Point in 2022.  He is also the editor of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (Nightboat Books, 2011), which won a Lambda Literary Award, and Punk Rock Is Cool for the End of the World: Poems and Notebooks of Ed Smith (Turtle Point, 2019).  Originally from Southern California, Trinidad currently lives in Chicago, where he is a Professor of Creative Writing/Poetry at Columbia College.

To explore the Harriet Rosenstein Finding Aid, click here. To do the same with Ted Hughes' papers and to see what materials the Rose Library has of Sylvia Plath's, look here.

RJ does a deep dive on Sylvia Plath's run-ins with the occult and how she used a ouija board to help with her writing. Elle attempts the Charlie Charlie challenge and performs Planchette writing while channeling her spirit guide. 

RJ examines the history of the Ouija boards and the bizarre stories of people who used them to fantastic and tragic effects, including poet Sylvia Plath.  Elle contacts a very rude spirit through the Ouija board, then consults her own spirit guide using the board.