ANNE SEXTON: A BIOGRAPHY. Diane Wood Middlebrook ... The possibilities of incest, child abuse and old reliable rejection are indeed discussed in the book, but they are not insisted upon.

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the suggestion ... In 1974, at the age of 45, Sexton put on her mother’s old fur coat and took her own life as well. After Sexton’s death, her daughter ...

Poetry hunter Erin Singer helped find an unpublished work by the late poet Anne Sexton. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks the Louisiana Tech English professor about her find. Anne Sexton's poetry is ...

The poet Anne Sexton makes a dashing ... Is Done with Broadway—and Almost Everything Else The seventy-six-year-old theatre diva, famed and feared for her salty bravado, dishes on Hal Prince ...

Sixty years after their initial publication, five unheralded early writings by confessional poet Anne Sexton are back in the spotlight. The lost works—a quintet of four poems and an essay—were ...

See About archive blog posts. In March of 1966, a camera crew visited Anne Sexton’s home. That year, the poet released her collection ‘Live or Die,’ which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

When my son had just turned 1, I sold my first book. I had been attending music classes with him down the street from our apartment in Brooklyn. I had no childcare. After the class, one of the ...

In 1974, when poet Anne Sexton committed suicide at age 45 at her home in Weston, her groundbreaking, confessional work had already earned her a Pulitzer Prize and made her one of the best-known ...