EPISODE · Dec 5, 2022 · 59 MIN
S4: E38 Ellen Bass, Francesca Bell, and Dion O'Reilly Talk about Anne Sexton.
from The Hive Poetry Collective · host The Hive
Ellen Bass talks about her experience having Ann Sexton as a teacher in the '70s at Boston University. Then, Francesca Bell zooms in, and we read and discuss a few of Sexton's poems. I mention Sexton's fabulous biography by Diane Middlebrook. If you are interested in reading Sexton's poems, a good place to start is her collected poems or also her selected poems.
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Ellen Bass talks about her experience having Ann Sexton as a teacher in the '70s at Boston University. Then, Francesca Bell zooms in, and we read and discuss a few of Sexton's poems. I mention Sexton's fabulous biography by Diane Middlebrook. If you are interested in reading Sexton's poems, a good place to start is her collected poems or also her selected poems.
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S4: E38 Ellen Bass, Francesca Bell, and Dion O'Reilly Talk about Anne Sexton.
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