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
Carol Potter (poet) Carol Potter (poet) Carol Potter is an American poet and professor. She is the 2104 winner of the Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press for her new book, Some Slow Bees. Her previous collection of poems is "Otherwise Obedient" (Red Hen Press, 2007), which was a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including "Poetry Magazine", "FIELD", "The Massachusetts Review", "The American Poetry Review", "Iowa Review", "Women's Review of Books", "Prairie Schooner", "Maize", "The Journal", and "Arts & Letters" and in anthologies including "Pushcart XXVI." She won a dA center for the