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Sharon Olds |
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Best American Poetry on the Air: An interview
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Sharon Olds
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 Sharon
Olds, born in San Francisco in 1942,
studied at Stanford University and received a
master's degree from Columbia University. Her
numerous honors include a National Endowment for the
Arts grant; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; the
San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first
collection, Satan
Says (University of Pittsburgh
Press, 1980); and the Lamont Poetry Selection and the
National Book Critics Circle Award for The
Dead & the Living (Random
House, 1983). Her other books of poetry, all from
Alfred A. Knopf, are Blood,
Tin, Straw (1999), The
Gold Cell (1997), The
Wellspring: Poems (1995),
and The
Father (1992).
Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The
Paris Review, and Ploughshares. |
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Best American Poetry on the Air |
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Sharon Olds
The Cortland Review presents a special
audio interview with Sharon Olds, originally recorded
as part of the "Best American Poetry on the
Air" series.
"The Best American Poetry on the Air" is
a radio offshoot of the best-selling annual poetry
anthology, edited by David Lehman. In the on-air
series, Lehman, assisted by Ed Webster, has recorded
a series of five pilot programs, each featuring a
different guest. In the five programs, Charles
Bernstein, Donald Hall, Sharon Olds, Denise Duhamel, and Susan
Wheeler read their poems and are interviewed by Lehman.
Sharon Olds was interviewed at the New School University where
Lehman teaches in the graduate writing program.
Listen to the
complete program (requires
Real Player)
Listen to the poems read by Sharon Olds in this program:
 David Lehman's most recent
book of poems, The
Evening Sun (Scribner,
2002), collects 150 of the "daily poems" he
wrote as an experiment during 1999 and 2000. He is
the series editor of The
Best American Poetry,
which he initiated in 1988. The 2001 volume was
edited by Robert Hass; the editor for 2002 is Robert
Creeley.
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