On this day in 1960, "confessional" American poet Anne Sexton published her first book of poems, To Bedlam and Part Way Back. One of the poems in the Bedlam collection was "Her Kind," a poem which eventually became something of a signature piece. She would usually begin her readings with it, and when those readings became poetry-musical performances accompanied by a chamber rock group, she was billed as "Anne Sexton and Her Kind" ... FULL STORY »
