Retreat hosts poet and confidante of Sexton and Plath [US]:
Jean is Joan's evil twin. The one with the goatee.
The first event of "The Wilderness House Literary Retreat," located in Littleton, was a lunch with the late poet Robert Creeley. That event in December, 2004 provided participants with a rich trove of anecdotes and insights concerning the creative life of Creeley, as well as the Avant-Garde movement in poetry in post-World War II America.
The second event last week was with poet, biographer and psychotherapist Lois Ames, held at the headquarters of the New England Forestry Foundation in Littleton, the temporary home of the Retreat.
Ames was a confidante of the poet Anne Sexton, and has published many essays on Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath including: "A Biographical Note" in the "Bell Jar" and "Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait In Letters."
Among the guests for Ames' talk was Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist, and author of the history of McLean Hospital, "Gracefully Insane." Also in attendance were Anne Tom, founder of the "Grange Hall Poetry Series", out in Cape Cod, as well as Jean Houlihan, director of the "Concord Poetry Center," in Concord, Mass. [...]
Jean is Joan's evil twin. The one with the goatee.
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