Poetry hunter Erin Singer helped find an unpublished work by the late poet Anne Sexton.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 like ...

Anne Sexton, the troubled Massachusetts housewife who published her first serious volume of poetry in 1960 at age 32, had a personality as theatrical as Lord Byron`s, and her poetry is among the most ...

Anne Sexton is essential reading, part of the canon of American literature and admired as one of the best of the "confessional" poets, along with Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell and John Berryman. But her ...

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 death, ...

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 ...

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.” Landau’s poetry collections include “The Uses of the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In March of 1966, a camera crew visited Anne Sexton’s home. That year, ...

Now we have a new book based on those tapes: An Accident of Hope: The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton by Dawn M. Skorczewski, Ph.D. An Associate Professor of English and Director of University Writing at ...

A love poem which Madonna wrote to her former bodyguard is said to be close to one Anne Sexton penned. A love poem that Madonna wrote to her former bodyguard is similar to one that Anne Sexton penned, ...