Sunday Dec. 10 

 Newton-born poet Anne Sexton battled depression most of her life and committed suicide in 1974 at the age of 45. She went to her garage in Weston, shut the door, got in the car, turned the engine on and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Sexton was a brave, transgressive poet, writing about abortion, masturbation and adultery well before those topics came into the mainstream. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her aptly titled collection, "Live or Die" in 1967, the summer of love. She later collaborated with some musicians, forming the group Anne Sexton and Her Kind, to set her poems to music. On Sunday Dec. 10 at 2 p.m. the fourth annual Anne Sexton tribute takes place right near where she is buried - at Forest Hills Cemetery's Forsyth Chapel. Four writers who knew here well will read from her work and their own. The tribute concludes with a walk to her gravesite. Admission: $5.

95 Forest Hills Ave., Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3150 foresthillstrust.org