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Kukil and Moss have been sifting through more than 3,000 items in Smith’s Sylvia Plath collection for journals, self-portraits, book covers and other objects that will help illuminate the writer’s ...
This vintage print of Sylvia Plath was taken in 1959 at her 9 Willow Street apartment in Boston. National Portrait Gallery The narrative of Sylvia Plath’s life that paints her as a tragic figure ...
Dorothy Moss ’95 was puzzled. As a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Moss was struggling over how to create an exhibition on Sylvia Plath ’55 that would make sense in that ...
While most references in pop culture tend to flatten Plath into a brooding intellectual, the National Portrait Gallery’s current exhibition One Life: Sylvia Plath seeks to present a nuanced view ...
can our dreamsever blur the intransigent lines which drawthe shape that shuts us in?— Sylvia Plath, "Tale of a Tub" (1956) The newest book of Sylvia Plath's work showcases not her poetry ...