Poetry Month Update!
April 6th, 2009 by Sarah Laleman Ward
My apologies for publishing some outdated events for this National Poetry Month! Please disregard the schedule of events from the previous post, and instead check out this calendar of events for current information.
Here’s one on the calendar for tonight:
Sharon Olds
Featured Poets: Sharon Olds
April 2, 2009, 7 p.m.
Tishman Auditorium, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY
Please join us for a poetry reading by Sharon Olds. Olds’ first collection of poems, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Olds’s following collection, The Dead & the Living (1983), received the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1983 and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other collections include Strike Sparks: Selected Poems (2004, Knopf), The Unswept Room (2002), Blood, Tin, Straw (1999), The Gold Cell (1997), The Wellspring (1995), and The Father (1992), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
About Olds’s poetry, one reviewer for the New York Times said, “Her work has a robust sensuality, a delight in the physical that is almost Whitmanesque. She has made the minutiae of a woman’s everyday life as valid a subject for poetry as the grand abstract themes that have preoccupied other poets.”
Olds’s numerous honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Ploughshares, and has been anthologized in more than a hundred collections.
Sponsored by NYU Creative Writing Program
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