... 1967and read at the International Poetry Festival in London. Sexton's life waxed and waned over the course of the next six years. At a high point, she received an honorary Phi Beta Kappa award from Harvard in 1968. Climbing higher in 1969, she served as editorial consultant to the New York Poetry Quarterly, and was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship that April. In ... 1969 she received an honorary Phi Beta Kappa award from Radcliffe University. This success continued with her teaching career at Boston University, her work at the American Place Theatre in New York, and conducting workshop...

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