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 ...

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 ...

The republication of Sexton's forgotten poems and essay — "Argument in the Gallery," "Winter Colony," "These Three Kings," "In Your Freshman Year" and "Feeling the Grass" — is equally fascinating.

Deborah Landau joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Anne Sexton’s poem “Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” and her own poem “Solitaire.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bot’s first release is from 1962: “The Sun,” by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton. X content. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

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 ...