Anne Sexton's poetry is like blood on the page, the most intimate kind of writing about depression and death, motherhood and sex, religion and family. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1967 and had a ...

Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was an American poet who epitomized the style of confessional poetry which emerged in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Other exemplars of this style include her friend Sylva ...

Before the demons Anne Sexton battled wrestled her down to a quiet, lonely suicide, the brilliant poet managed an outpouring of work exploring female identity that reads like that of a modern-day ...

When Anne Sexton is remembered, writes Paula M. Salvio, it is often as a confessional poet, drawing the reader into her experiences of depression and addiction, spinning plots of adultery and ...

In 1956, as Sexton struggled with the depression that would shadow her life, Dr. Martin T. Orne, who was treating her at a hospital, suggested she write poetry.

So the poem you've chosen from the archive is "Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman," by Anne Sexton. Can you tell us why this particular poem stood out to you.

Early works from Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Sexton were discovered by faculty from the University of Idaho. The works are considered “the most valuable ‘new’ poems in the world” according ...

When the tapes of poet Anne Sexton's therapy were first released by her psychiatrist after Sexton's suicide, there was an uproar. Now there's a fascinating new book based on those tapes.

The poet appears at the top of the stairs, holding a highball glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. It’s 1966, and the filmmaker Richard Moore is with Anne Sexton in her suburban ...