She went to both public and private schools, and was made to repeat the fifth grade. As a headstrong, flirtatious, academically inattentive teenager she was sent to a private boarding school called Rogers Hall
at...
Material Conditions of Writing
Anne Sexton
AS
began writing poetry at her first boarding school, Rogers Hall
, where some of her poems appeared in the school yearbook. Her models at this stage were Sara Teasdale
and Adelaide Crapsey
. She...