30. She published her first poem at the age of 8 and her work was appearing in national newspapers soon after
It was while she was living in Wellesley that Plath published her first work. She was just 8-years-old when she sent her work, entitled simply ‘Poem’ to the Boston Herald newspaper. Perhaps to her mother’s surprise, it was published. Notably, unlike most of her later work, this poem was short, sweet and relatively joyful. It went simply: ‘Hear the crickets chirping/In the dewy grass/Bright little fireflies/twinkle as they pass.’ Almost a decade later, Plath had another of her poems published by a newspaper. This time, the Christian Science Monitor printed a poem she had penned just after graduating high school.