John Madera

Sylvia Plath on Poetry, Silence, Dying, and More

Happy birthday, Sylvia Plath! Here are some quotes from her writing: “The blood jet is poetry, / There…

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “To learn which questions are unanswerable,…

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the writer. “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.” …

Happy birthday, Amiri Baraka! Here are some quotes from the writer. “There is no justice in America, but…

Happy birthday, William Faulkner! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Read, read, read. Read everything—trash, classics, good…

We are pleased to nominate the following fiction, poetry, and nonfiction pieces for inclusion in Sundress Publications‘s Best of…

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams! Here are some quotes from the writer. “beauty is a defiance of authority”…

Happy birthday, Richard Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer. “All literature is protest.” “The artist…

Happy birthday, Julio Cortázar! Here are some quotes from the writer. “‘What good is a writer if he…

Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Reality is not always probable, or…