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Born in San Francisco on November 19, 1942, Sharon Olds earned a BA at Stanford University and a PhD at Columbia University. Thereafter she taught poetry at numerous schools and in workshops. She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at New York University. She is  best known for her powerful, often erotic, imagery of the body and her examination of the family. She is the winner of several prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. She was the Poet Laureate of New York from 1998 to 2000, and held the position of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2006 to 2012. Olds is the recipient of the 2016 Wallace Stevens Award. Her numerous other honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.   Olds grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of an abusive, alcoholic father and a weak, compliant mother; her anger at her parents would influence her poetry.Her poetry has been anthologized in more than a hundred collections. Her poems honor the dead encompass both family members and victims of political violence; those addressed to the living continue to examine the life of the body. Olds has published eight volumes of poetry.  Her first collection, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. The poems explore intensely personal themes with unflinching physicality, enacting what Alicia Ostriker describes as an "erotics of family love and pain."

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sharon-Olds
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sharon-olds
https://poets.org/poet/sharon-olds
https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/sharon-olds
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olds/about.htm
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/sharon_olds/biography

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Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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July 1980 | David Bromwich, Norman Dubie, Sandra Gilbert, Jonathan Holden, William Meredith, Sharon Olds, Elder Olson, Robert Pinsky, Harvey Shapiro, Robley Wilson, Paul Breslin

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After Making Love in Winter - Poem by Sharon Olds

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After Making Love in Winter - Poem by Sharon Olds

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After Making Love in Winter by Sharon Olds

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May 1987 | John Bensko, Malcolm Glass, Susan Hahn, Maxine Kumin, Sydney Lea, Mekeel McBride, Sharon Olds, Liz Rosenberg, J. Rosser, Sally Segall, Richard Speakes, Alison Stone, Jeanne Walker, Lisa Zeidner, Sandra Gilbert

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Sharon Olds reading two poems at the Dodge Poetry Festival 9/26/08

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Sharon Olds - Born on November 19, 1942, in San Francisco, Sharon Olds has served as New York state poet laureate and a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets.

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Joan Margarit International Poetry Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Widely anthologized, her work has also been published in a number of journals and magazines. She was New York State Poet from 1998 to 2000. Olds's National Book Critics Circle Award-winning volume The Dead and the Living

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Poet Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and grew up in Berkeley, California where she was raised, she has said, as a "hellfire Calvinist." She attended Stanford University and earned her Ph.D. at Columbia in 1972. She was thirty-seven when she published her first book of poems, Satan...