Poetry Reading
Sharon Olds is the author of nine books of poetry including The Dead & the Living, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, and The Father, which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her most recent book is One Secret Thing.
Introduction by Deborah Landau
Introduction by Deborah Landau
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Location:
Tishman Auditorium, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South
 | Sharon Olds is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program
at NYU, where she currently holds the Erich Maria Remarque
Professorship at NYU. Her first book of poetry, Satan Says, received the San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second book, The Dead and the Living,
was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and the winner of the
National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of The Gold Cell;The Father; The Wellspring; Blood, Tin, Straw; The Unswept Room; and Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002.
Her most recent collection, One Secret Thing, was published in 2008. She received a Lila Wallace-Readers’ Digest Grant in 1993, part of which was designated for the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island. In 1997, she received the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, and from 1998-2000 she was the New York State Poet Laureate. |
