I have a Sylvia Plath poem in the latest issue of The Texas Review! "Sitting with Figs" was written using the well-known figs paragraph from The Bell Jar. Here is the paragraph I used with the words I selected for the poem in red: I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famou

So thrilled that my poem "Death-Spot" is Poem of the Week at The Missouri Review! You can read the poem along with an artist statement here. I wrote this poem using a paragraph from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Here is the paragraph with the words I selected in red: A morbid fear: that protests too much. To the doctor. I am going to the psychiatrist this week, just to meet him, to know he's there. And, ironically, I feel I need him. I need a father. I need a mothe

Beyond excited to have a Sylvia Plath found poem in Tupelo Quarterly! Check out "The Feminine Experience." I used a paragraph from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath to write the poem. Here it is with the words I selected in red. Now enough factual background statement. He and I: sat in the living room, at Rahar's," at the coffee shop" and talked and did-not-talk as we pleased. He hates sitting: likes to talk walking. (N.B also) He sat next to me with his arm around me,

I'm fortunate enough to have two Sylvia Plath found poems in the latest issue of the South Dakota Review! Check out "Fates" and "Heaven Is Empty." Both poems were written using paragraphs from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Here are the paragraphs with the words I selected in red. "Fates" I have never in my life, except that deadly summer of 1953, & fall, gone through such a black lethal two weeks. I couldn't write a word about it, although I did in my head. The hor

"August Night" was published by Halfway Down the Stairs this past December. Check it out! It was a rather tricky found poem to write since there weren't a lot of pronouns to work with in the source paragraph. Here is the paragraph I used from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath with the words I selected in red: Tonight, for a moment, all was at peace inside. I came out of the house-across -the-street a little before twelve, sick with unfulfilled longing, alone, self-revil

"Skeptical and Inferior" appeared in Invisible City this past September. The very thoughtful editors included a short section on the writing process as well as the paragraph I used from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath to write the poem alongside the piece. You can see which words I used to write "Skeptical and Inferior" at Invisible City but I'm including the paragraph here as well with the words I used in red: Mother wrote today with a good letter of maxims; skeptica

Last summer, David Harrison Horton invited me to contribute some found poems to SAGINAW No. 9 and so the first of my Sylvia Plath found poems were introduced to the world! Read "I Wanted a Nice Life," "Wanting," "Soft Blossoms," "Spring," "Tongue-Shy," "Some Sleep Is Bleak," and "No Solace" here. David was kind enough to nominate "Wanting" for a Pushcart Prize later in 2021. All seven of these poems were written using paragraphs from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. T

I have a poem in the March 2016 issue of The Harpoon Review! You can read "23 Fitzroy Road" online now. For those of you who aren't Sylvia Plath fans, 23 Fitzroy Road, London is the address of the house where she died in 1963. I actually got a chance to visit it in 2012. And by visit I mean I made my sister and a friend wander around Primrose Hill with me at 9pm until we found the house. It has a black front door and the sign to the side of the door only mentions that William