Poet Kathleen Spivack: Boston as a Literary City

Kathleen Spivack - author of A History of Yearning - celebrates the literacy of Boston, and of course doesn’t get away without mentioning Anne Sexton. She writes that she came to Boston in 1959 on a fellowship to study with poet Robert Lowell, both in his famous workshop and in private tutorial, and that he introduced her to other poets, including included Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

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They included Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, Basil Bunting, Jonathan Griffin, and others. Later, writers Frank Bidart, Andrew Wylie, Robert Pinsky, Jonathan Galassi, Lloyd Schwartz, ...
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