"Young"

Anne Sexton, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1967, did not discover her poetic voice until she was an adult, but in this poem, she uses it to write about when she was young.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni