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 ...

Poetry hunter Erin Singer helped find an unpublished work by the late poet Anne Sexton.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

University of Idaho assistant professor Zachary Turpin and his colleagues recently found previously unknown works by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton, whose confessional style of writing made ...

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 death, ...

Anne Sexton began writing poetry at the suggestion of her psychiatrist. She became known for sharing the thorny details of her personal life—including her fraught relationship with her late mother, ...

Deborah Landau: [00:00:38] Thanks so much. Kevin Young: [00:00:39] Thanks for joining us today. So the poem you've chosen from the archive is "Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman," by Anne ...

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 ...

Anne Sexton talks on the phone in her office after winning the Pulitzer Prize for her book Liver or Die, 1967. (Photo via Getty Images / Bettmann) The poet appears at the top of the stairs, holding a ...