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Norwich Radical (blog)
February 10, 2018
Spoils is a poised and lyrical second collection from James Brookes. One of the first publications from new independent press Offord Road Books, Spoils enters the world at a time when nationalism, truth, and accessibility to literature are at the forefront of political and poetic conversation. This book isÃÂ ...
Seven Days
February 8, 2018
The late John Ashbery calls Stone "a brilliant transcriber of her generation's emerging pathology and sensibility." Sharon Olds says, "In her poems, we're in the presence of a naked human voice, not concealing itself — or overreaching to expose itself — which dives as deep as voices go." Yes, 34-year-oldÃÂ ...
Oxford Eagle
February 8, 2018
Out of an anthology of over 1,000 poems, Franklin chose the pieces “Diameter” by Michelle Y. Burke, and “I Go Back to May 1937” by Sharon Olds. She says she chose the two poems because she felt the themes were relatable to everyone on some level. “I was really touched by 'Diameter,'” Franklin said.
SFGate
January 14, 2018
Jamie Quatro made a splash with her 2013 debut, “I Want to Show You More,” a collection of stories intensely focused on two major threats to family: adultery and mortality. At once boldly carnal, spiritual, cerebral and literary, Quatro was hailed as a Flannery O'Connor for our era. With her first novel, “FireÃÂ ...
The Guardian
January 13, 2018
Indeed, think today of the US poet Sharon Olds, forced for years to equivocate over whether material in her Pulitzer prize-winning work is autobiographical lest she be similarly dismissed. The question is not how did Mary write Frankenstein, but why is it so hard to believe that she did? After all, she herselfÃÂ ...
ABC Online
June 24, 2017
But they all feature in Odes, the latest collection from Sharon Olds. In recent years, the American poet has found critical acclaim. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the TS Eliot Prize in 2013 for Stag's Leap, written when her husband left her after almost three decades of marriage. Last year, Olds was awardedÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
September 22, 2016
In 2008, the poet Sharon Olds came across a bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda's “Odes” and got excited. In the poems, Neruda found cause to praise the common and the extraordinary, the concrete and the conceptual. He wrote of artichokes, and the moon, and friendship. Olds, who published her firstÃÂ ...
Superior Telegram
December 31, 1999
Duluth: The College of St. Scholastica hosts Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds for its 14th annual Warner Reading Series at 7:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Auditorium. Free. Additional Articles Recommended by Superior Telegram. A couple of Minnesota Vikings fans pose in front of a replica of AdamÃÂ ...
Methow Valley News
December 14, 2017
Woodworth recited “I Go Back to 1937” by Sharon Olds and “Memory as a Hearing Aid” by Tony Hoagland. Romero recited “Love Song” by Dorothy Parker and “Bent to the Earth” by Blas Manuel De Luna. Davis recited “Life Cycle of Common Man” by Howard Nemerov and “The Truly Great” by StephenÃÂ ...
Paradise Post
December 9, 2017
Sharon Olds writes deeply moving poetry that is both accessible and powerful. She's never sentimental, but she can make you cry. And Billy Collins is not as heavy, but his poems nearly always reward the reader, and he can make you laugh. I'd also like to recommend a CD by my friend Tete Alhinho whoÃÂ ...
Washington City Paper (blog)
December 7, 2017
The title is culled from a Sharon Olds poem, “First Thanksgiving,” in which a mother looks forward to welcoming her college-going child home for Thanksgiving. As the poem flows, the mother mulls: “As a child, I caught/ bees, by the wings, and held them, some seconds,/ looked into their wild faces,/ listenedÃÂ ...
DC Theatre Scene
December 4, 2017
Fresh off its world premiere at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA, Curve of Departure takes its title from the Sharon Olds' poem, “First Thanksgiving,” which explores the emotions and memories triggered in a mother's mind during her daughter's first visit home from college. Bonds' writing is pairedÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
October 17, 2017
Charles Simic joins Paul Muldoon, in his last podcast as The New Yorker's poetry editor, to read and discuss Sharon Olds's poem “Her Birthday as Ashes in Seawater” and Simic's own poem “The Infinite.” More: Books ÷ Poetry ÷ History ÷ Sharon Olds ÷ Family. Never miss a podcast episode again! Subscribeà...
ABC Online
June 24, 2017
But they all feature in Odes, the latest collection from Sharon Olds. In recent years, the American poet has found critical acclaim. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the TS Eliot Prize in 2013 for Stag's Leap, written when her husband left her after almost three decades of marriage. Last year, Olds was awardedÃÂ ...
SFGate
January 8, 2017
Sharon Olds is a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down. For more than three decades, her poems have been fearless, intimate and ardently pro-sex. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for “Stag's Leap,” a moving collection about the end of her marriage, but her latest book, OdesÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
September 22, 2016
In 2008, the poet Sharon Olds came across a bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda's “Odes” and got excited. In the poems, Neruda found cause to praise the common and the extraordinary, the concrete and the conceptual. He wrote of artichokes, and the moon, and friendship. Olds, who published her firstÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
August 31, 2017
For instance, I've read all of Sharon Olds's poetry. I've read more deeply into Lorrie Moore. I've had more of a broad and surface contact withÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
August 24, 2017
... going to college (Robert Bly, e.e. Cummings), having sex (Sharon Olds), and bearing witness to her mother's depression (Sylvia Plath).
SFGate
August 13, 2017
Sharon Olds' poem “The Sisters of Sexual Treasure” clarifies Bialosky's own erotic awakening, a charged encounter in a blue Corvette. LaterÃÂ ...
San Francisco Chronicle
August 12, 2017
Sharon Olds' poem “The Sisters of Sexual Treasure” clarifies Bialosky's own erotic awakening, a charged encounter in a blue Corvette. LaterÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
August 3, 2017
... Julia Child, and was close to literary giants such as John Updike, Anne Tyler, William Maxwell, John Hersey, Peter Taylor and Sharon Olds.
Vanity Fair
August 3, 2017
... to point out that she also had her hand in the work of writers like John Updike, Anne Tyler, Langston Hughes, John Hersey and Sharon Olds.”.
Eater
August 2, 2017
... to point out that she also had her hand in the work of writers like John Updike, Anne Tyler, Langston Hughes, John Hersey, and Sharon Olds.
SFGate
July 29, 2017
Sharon Olds, Jericho Brown, Jane Hirshfield, Juan Felipe Rivera and other diverse voices all write against “a false story about America andÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
July 24, 2017
Sharon Olds's “Immigration Anthem” starts with her hip operation and ends on Ellis Island before the golden door: entering through it was aÃÂ ...
New Republic
July 13, 2017
Featured poems are by Jenny Xie and Sharon Olds. For Backstory, photographer Alex Garcia depicts deportation under the ObamaÃÂ ...
ABC Online
June 24, 2017
But they all feature in Odes, the latest collection from Sharon Olds. In recent years, the American poet has found critical acclaim. She won theÃÂ ...
SFGate
January 8, 2017
Sharon Olds is a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down. For more than three decades, her poems have been fearless,ÃÂ ...
KNPR
November 30, 2016
“Odes”, the latest book of poetry by Sharon Olds is full of eye-catching titles, including: "Ode of Broken Loyalty;" "Hip Replacement Ode;" "Ode toÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 10, 2016
Sharon Olds's inspired new collection alerts us to taboos we barely think about ordinarily. The book is exposed – in more ways than one – andÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 27, 2016
The author Sharon Olds. Her latest poetry collection, “Odes,” covers sex, death and aging among other topics — like buttermilk and compostingÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
September 22, 2016
In “Odes,” her latest collection of poems, Sharon Olds lauds things that are not often considered worthy of appreciation—stretch marks, fat,ÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
September 22, 2016
In “Odes,” her latest collection of poems, Sharon Olds lauds things that are not often considered worthy of appreciation—stretch marks, fat,ÃÂ ...
East Hampton Star
December 31, 1999
... and consoled by lines of passion and despair by, among others, Louise Bogan, Gerald Stern, Denis Johnson, Sharon Olds, and Sylvia Plath.
The Jewish Voice
December 31, 1999
An editor with the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house for over 50 years, Jones was a staunch supporter of literary titans like Sharon Olds, JohnÃÂ ...
The Hindu
December 31, 1999
... writer Julia Child, was close to literary giants such as John Updike, Anne Tyler, William Maxwell, John Hersey, Peter Taylor and Sharon Olds.
San Francisco Chronicle
December 31, 1999
Sharon Olds, Jericho Brown, Jane Hirshfield, Juan Felipe Rivera and other diverse voices all write against “a false story about America andÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
March 8, 2017
In their later years, the Oppens became touchstones for a younger generation of artists, critics, and intellectuals, among them the poet Sharon Olds and the novelist Paul Auster. (Essays by both appear in the collection "The Oppens Remembered," whichÃÂ ...
lareviewofbooks
March 7, 2017
There needs to be a different way of talking about it aside from "autobiography." I'm interested in how Sharon Olds has spoken about her work as being "apparently personal." The things of her poems do seem like her "real life," but she didn't used to ...
Chicago Tribune
March 7, 2017
Teacher Peter Kahn and students meet during a spoken word club at Oak Park and River Forest High School on March 7, 2017. Kahn co-edited the new collection "The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks.
Irish Times
March 3, 2017
"When I was 16 I discovered the poem The Promise by Sharon Olds, which started my love of poetry. I didn't know poems like that could exist.
NewNowNext
March 1, 2017
"Catullus kicked things off, and Lord Byron, Sharon Olds and Carol Ann Duffy, among others, have run with the ball since.
Winston-Salem Journal
February 26, 2017
The best N.C. State undergraduate entry will receive $100. The guest judge is Richard Garcia. A presentation of awards and a reading by Sharon Olds, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will be at 7:30 p.m. April 13 at Titmus Theatre, Thompson Hall on the ...
The Guardian
February 26, 2017
Poetry and sex have a long and venerable history, one often being used in the service of setting up the other. Catullus kicked things off, and Lord Byron, Sharon Olds and Carol Ann Duffy, among others, have run with the ball since. The work of those ...
Volume One
February 21, 2017
In the book's epigraph, Butler borrows a line from poet Sharon Olds' "Known to be Left": "Have faith, old heart.
Yale Daily News (blog)
February 21, 2017
Brian Matusovsky '19, one of the directors of Voke, said the two artists will follow in the footsteps of other famous poets such as Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds and Lucille Clifton in celebrating not only the world's cultures and diversity, but also its ...
Sierra Sun
February 15, 2017
Robert Hass, Sharon Olds and Gregory Pardlo have all been awarded the prestigious national prize. Additional staff include long-time staff members Forrest Gander and Brenda Hillman, who was awarded the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize, as well as FranciscoÃÂ ...
Seven Days
February 1, 2017
So the writers left their day jobs in the city - Pease's gig at a two-year school in Brooklyn, Bianca's position assisting poet Sharon Olds - to execute the mission of the foundation. The impending birth of their first child was another factor in ...
William & Mary News
January 24, 2017
Noted writers Edwidge Dandicat, Richard Lucyshyn '02, Jack Christian and Sharon Olds will be featured at the Patrick Hayes Writers Festival.
The Hindu
January 21, 2017
Kozhikode, did justice to Mrs. Kriskorian by American poet Sharon Olds. Both shared the second place. Karthika Vinod, Durga HSS, Kanhangad, who secured the third place, recited an Anne Sexton poem.
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