Birthday Letters Birthday Letters Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and "explosive" marriage. Until the publication of this book, 35 years after Plath's suicide, Hughes had said and published nearly nothing about his relationship and life with Plath. When it was discovered that he had infidelities
Meg Johnson (poet) Meg Johnson (poet) Meg Johnson is an American poet and lecturer. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including "Midwestern Gothic", "Slipstream Magazine", "Word Riot", "Hobart", and many others. Her first collection of poems, "Inappropriate Sleepover", was released in 2014, and her second collection, "The Crimes of Clara Turlington", is due to be released in December 2015. She is also the current editor of the "Dressing Room Poetry Journal". Johnson was born and raised in Ames, Iowa. She enjoyed dance as a child and wrote poems in high school. She danced with the Iowa State University dance department in