poet Archives - Linda Gray Sexton

Fires of Winter

By Linda Gray Sexton | January 16, 2019 |

I’m happy, once in a while, to send you a poem I find meaningful. The sonnet below is intended to help us look at the inner “fires” of winter. Written by a poet who was friends with Emily Dickinson, it displays obvious similarities to the latter’s work. If you haven’t read anything by either of…

ONE WORD AT A TIME

By Linda Gray Sexton | September 30, 2015 |

Last week, as some of you will remember from the invitation I sent out, I was lucky enough to be “in conversation with” author Erica Jong, just as the last newsletter was going out. It was an evening event with a best-selling novelist who also just happens to be one of the friends I most…