In June I received an email asking about something that was said back in 2017 during the Q & A of a talk that I gave with Heather Clark and Karen V. Kukil at the Grolier Club. If I knew it, I had forgotten, that a  video was available online of the Symposium which was done in conjunction with the exhibit from the collections of Judith Raymo. At the start of the Q & A, Richard Larschan, who was a great friend of Aurelia Plath's in Wellesley, asked if we had gotten access to sealed letters at the Lilly Library. He had asked this of me a few times but I never really did much investigating about it. But later, as we were in the throes of preparing Volume II of The Letters of Sylvia Plath , I did write to the Lilly to ask if they have or had any sealed materials. I was informed that they do not presently have any sealed Plath materials. However, I learned after the good archivists did some digging, that when Aurelia Plath sold the collection to the Library in 1977 that ...

On a pre-dawn train from New York to Boston, I thought I would write up a small review of the Sylvia Plath Symposium at the Grolier Club last night, which was held in conjunction with Judith Raymo's member exhibit " This is the light of the mind " in which selections from her personal collection of Sylvia Plath books and typescripts is on display through 4 November. After checking into my hotel, I walked up Madison Avenue to see 575, where Plath was a guest intern for Mademoiselle . I gave "the glass eggbeater...revolving doors" a quick hello before continuing on to the Grolier Club (1963, p. 43). Before the talks, Judith gave Karen V. Kukil, Heather Clark, and me a tour of the show and it was wonderful to see all the cases bursting with Plath. Judith had consulted all three of us on various aspects of the show and I had seen and read her catalog but to see everything in real time was wonderful. Some, like her copy of the Saint Botolph's Review are...

This is a friendly reminder that tomorrow, Thursday, 12 October 2017, there will be a brief Sylvia Plath Symposium at the Grolier Club in New York City. Judith Glazer Raymo Tied into a current members exhibit curated by Judith Raymo, the symposium will feature 20 minute talks by Karen V. Kukil, Peter K. Steinberg, and Heather Clark. Karen V. Kukil Peter K. Steinberg Heather Clark We will each concentrate on a range of subjects covering Plath's archive at Smith (Karen), letters (Peter), and Plath's biography (Heather).   Judith's exhibition, which I am excited to see, features selections from her Sylvia Plath collection and includes books, manuscripts, and much more. Additional items are on loan from Smith College. The exhibit closes on 4 November. I am looking forward to talking about Plath's letters and meeting some new people. If anyone is there tweeting, please tag me if you can and I can retweet later, and use the hasghtag #plathgrolie...

The Grolier Club in New York City will host the exhibition "'This is the light of the mind': Selections from the Sylvia Plath collection of Judith G. Raymo" which opens today, 20 September 2017, and runs through 4 November 2017. On Thursday, 12 October, the Grolier will host a Sylvia Plath Symposium from 6:00 PM-8:00 PM. Speakers include Karen Kukil, Associate Director of Special Collections, Smith College; Peter K. Steinberg, co-editor of The Letters of Sylvia Plath ; and Heather Clark, Fellow, Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center. Moderator: Judith Raymo. Other details TBA. No charge, but reservations are requested. RSVPs from non-members should go to Grolier Club Administrative Assistant Maev Brennan, tel. (212) 838-6690, or e-mail mbrennan@grolierclub.org. A stunningly produced catalog has been printed and copies will be for sale via Oak Knoll. Looking forward to giving a talk and to meeting who ever shows up! The Grolier Club is lo...

' No Other Appetite': Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and the Blood Jet of Poetry has won the Leab Award for the Best Exhibition Catalogue or 2006. Congratulations! The catalogue accompanied an exhibit at the Grolier Club in New York City in 2005. I had the chance to see it and found it to be a remarkable exhibit of both poets' work. The catalogue is worth every penny and is illustrated. There are currently five for sale at abebooks.com . "Every year the American Library Association gives its Leab Award for the best exhibition catalogue produced in the United States and Canada. The Leab is a juried competition, run by the College and Research Library Division of the ALA. " Read the full story, and see pictures from the catalogue, at the following link: http://www.acmebook.com/index/2007/06/10#item780