Sylvia Plath and Winthrop-By-The-Sea
By Jeffery Round During her early years, Sylvia Plath lived in a number of places in Massachusetts. Of her youthful residences, none is more bleakly picturesque…
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Literary Halloween – Part I: 5 Costumes with Character
By Jessica Monk Halloween, I confess: I’ve failed you. My costumes have been offbeat, inappropriate, and dangerously conceptual. Being a literature graduate, it’s what’s expected…
An Encounter with William Stafford
A life that gives rise to 51 books in the short span of 79 years can certainly be regarded as literary. William Stafford lived such a life.
Hannah’s Dream: A Conversation with the Granddaughter of Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas
Literary Traveler is honored to publish the following interview with Jill Paris, author of Life is Like a Walking Safari, and Hannah Florence Ellis, granddaughter of Dylan Thomas,…
Beyond Ideology: The Poetry of Separation in South Korea
The haunting parallels of separation and unification that a visit to the DMZ conjure ...
Robinson Jeffers: The Poet and Stone Mason of Tor House
By Victor A. Walsh Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived…
“The pears fatten like little buddhas”: Inscribing Sylvia Plath onto Central Java
By Audrey McGlinchy I opened my notebook on a return flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Chiang Mai, Thailand, my home for the past nine months.…
Visiting Pablo Neruda’s Houses
By Ruth Kozak Excerpt from Pablo Neruda “Poet’s Obligation” So through me, freedom and the sea will make their answer to the shuttered heart. I…
The Remains of a Dream: Alexander Pope’s Villa at Twickenham
By Loredana Massa For a common tourist, nowadays, Twickenham, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, may mean nothing but a nice little…
D. H. Lawrence Revisted
The lonely desert mesas stretched to a line of mountains etched on the stark blue horizon. At an elevation of 7,000 feet the morning air was crisp an…