Sylvia Plath, the budding poet tragically lost to suicide at the age of 30, was born on this day in Boston, 1932. Sylvia Plath wrote: "Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
October 27 is also Dylan Thomas's birthday. So today is the day to read "Poem in October," which begins:
It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood