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Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, [1] the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award , [2] and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry . [3]
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…
Oct 12, 2022 · Sharon Olds, the celebrated modern poet, is more welcoming. You don’t even have to knock; she will already be there, waiting in the hall, calling out greetings. Her voice is easy and...
Learn about the life and work of the American poet Sharon Olds, who writes about feminism, love, family, and history with emotional depth and fire. Read 10 of her most acclaimed poems, such as 'Satan Says', 'I Go Back to May 1937', and 'His Stillness'.
Sharon Olds, American poet best known for her powerful, often erotic, imagery of the body and her examination of the family. She won the Pulitzer Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize for the collection Stag’s Leap (2012). Learn more about Olds’s life and work.
Sharon Olds is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a national treasure. Learn about her life, works, awards, and influences on this web page.
Sharon Olds: Selections. “Emotionally scathing” poems by this radical poet of the unsaid. By Noah Baldino and The Editors. [Jump to poems by publication year: 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, 2023]
