Maxine Kumin

Anne Sexton, an extravagant poem and short story writer. Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a poem and short story writer for most of her life. Sexton was a weird type of person during this time, because of the way she was raised. She mostly wrote about her life, family, and her mental illnesses. Anne Sexton won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; an outstanding accomplishment during this time; she also was the writer of "Her Kind" during the Contemporary era. Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was an extravagant…

Mary Karr is a critically acclaimed poet, memoirist, and essayist, who is an exemplar of the characteristics of a Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate serves as a liaison between the general public and the poetry community, spreading awareness and inspiring novice poets through their excellent prose. Karr’s poetry is especially accessible and distinctly American, as seen through her use simple yet meaningful vocabulary and explicitly American characteristics and techniques, making her an acutely apt…

Although not an inmate himself, he had breakfast first, in the "normal" world and then goes to work. The doctor is the one who takes control, who has a viewpoint, who is composed, sane, and in disciplined. The speaker, on the other hand, is portrayed by differences with Doctor Martin. The speaker is not given a name. "Her motion is ‘speeds' a word that connects, by means of internal rhyme with ‘queen' in line six and ‘bee' in line seven, to suggest the brittle meaninglessness of her position…