Ruth Soter

In 1958 AS joined John Holmes 's poetry class at the Boston Center for Adult Education (also attended by Maxine Kumin and Ruth Soter ). In September 1958 she enrolled in Robert Lowell 's poetry...

AS made many friends among her fellow poets: Kumin , Soter , William DeWitt Snodgrass , Sylvia Plath (whose death affected her deeply), George Starbuck and James Wright (who were also her lovers), and Anthony Hecht

Travelling to Antioch, Ohio, for the writers' conference there in August 1958 (with Ruth Soter , because she was afraid to go alone) was the first of many poetry-driven trips for AS . Next...