Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. 

Sexton is seen as the modern model of the confessional poet due to the intimate and emotional content of her poetry. Sexton often wrote and disclosed her struggles with mental illness through her work. Anne Sexton has also included important yet overlooked topics that touched on the overall experience for a woman.

Her work started out as being about herself, however as her career progressed she made periodic attempts to reach outside the realm of her own life for poetic themes.Transformations ( written in 1971), which is a re-visionary re-telling of Grimm's Fairy Tales, is one such book.

And where the you can find her Cinderella poem.

Tragically Anne Sexton committed suicide October 4, 1974.
*Trigger Warning* this poem has a line within it that brings up black face.

Reading Anne Sexton's Poem, Cinderella is Benjamin Cutler.

Benjamin Cutler is an award-winning poet and high school English teacher in the mountains of western North Carolina where he also spends his time fly fishing and hiking along the area’s many creeks and trails. Benjamin’s poems have appeared widely in literary journals and magazines, and he is the author of the book of poems, The Geese Who Might be Gods—which you can find at Main Street Rag Publishing Company’s online bookstore (mainstreetrag.com) or by requesting the title at your local bookstore. Benjamin is also a husband and a father to four wonderful, know-it-all kids—Dallin, Camden, Abigail, and Brooke—to whom he occasionally reads princess stories. You can connect with Benjamin and his work at BenjaminCutlerPoet.com

About this weeks Guest host.

James Avramenko is a poet, essayist and podcast host currently based out of Saskatoon. You can hear his podcast "Friendless", a show about Facebook and the nature of modern friendship, on all podcast platforms or at friendlesspod.com. His newest collection of poetry "An Actor Despairs" is available for sale at friendlesspod.com/shop. Keep up to date on all his work on social media @anaveragemango and @friendlesspod