TWA Poet: Anne Sexton

1928 - 1974

It's the birthday of poet Anne Sexton, born in Newton, Massachusetts (1928). She said: "As a young child I was locked in my room until the age of five. After that, at school, I did not understand the people who were my size or even the larger ones. At home, or away from it, people seemed out of reach. Thus I hid in fairy tales and read them daily like a…