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...open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation," is not the biggest nor the most prestigious of the literary-periodical set, but it has nurtured the early careers of such now familiar names as W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. And it has the distinction of having chosen a title that doesn't sound nearly as quaint as those of the other new magazines Time wrote about that week: Tiger's Eye, Masses & Mainstream, Instead and even that bible of the Beat Generation, Neurotica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big News For a Small Magazine | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...book is finished you are so much involved in the next book really—because the production of the book takes a bit of time. So you’re already in your next book. I was already in the midst of a book about Robert Lowell, [Anne] Sexton, and [Sylvia] Plath. THC: How was it to be Robert Lowell’s protégé and work with Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath? KS: I came to Boston on this wonderful fellowship to study with [Robert Lowell] and he didn’t know what...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 21 Years After Pulitzer Nomination, Poet Spivack Looks Ahead | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...think America will ever regain the honor and prestige of our "Greatest Generation"? -Debra Sexton, Bethel Island, Calif. Within every generation there is greatness. What you don't want to have America do again is to go through the tests that made the Greatest Generation: first the Depression, and then World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tom Brokaw | 11/7/2007 | See Source »

...Earth, earth, riding your merry-go-round toward extinction," the poet Anne Sexton wrote. How fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warning | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Dan Luna, a meteorologist and hydrologist in the National Weather Service's Chanhassen, Minn., office, says up to 7 inches of rain may fall in parts of the region this weekend. That puts some farmers in a tenuous position. First, Keith Sexton feared the summer drought would reduce his corn crops at his farm near Fort Dodge, Iowa, in the north-central part of the state. So far, the rains have been a blessing: He's expecting to yield about 165 bushels of corn per acre, and about 50 bushels of soybeans per acre - average to above-average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Rains Better Than Drought? | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

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