Meet Sharon Olds — National Poetry Month Featured Poet for April 21st
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, including most recently Odes (2016) and Stag’s Leap (2012), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize. Her other honors include the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first book, Satan Says (1980), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second, The Dead and the Living (1983), which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. The Father (1992) was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England, and The Unswept Room (2002) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped to found the NYU workshop program for residents of Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Her next collection, Arias, will be published by Knopf in October 2019. She lives in New York City.
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Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric The poet discusses her new collection in praise of everything from tampons to oral sex.
Sharon Olds: Blood, sweat and fears When Sharon Olds was a child, she was told she was going to hell.
Heartbroken? 6 Ways to Pull Yourself Back Up At one time or another, it happens — the person we most love goes away. How do we survive it — and thrive? Celebrated poet Sharon Olds weighs in.
Sharon Olds: My husband left me after 32 years — but I refuse to be a victim Melanie McDonagh meets the TS Eliot Prize-winner Sharon Olds, whose powerful poetry collection was inspired by the ex-husband who out of the blue abandoned her for a colleague
Sharon Olds, America’s Brave Poet of the Body
Poems On-Line:
He Comes for the Jewish Family, 1942
Prayer during a Time My Son Is Having Seizures
Whenever I Saw You I Handed You a Bouquet, and
Znamenskaya Square, Leningrad, 1941
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) (audio only)
Still Life In Landscape The Pact
