Poet Sharon Olds will give a public reading of her work at 8 p.m. Monday, April 5, in Kresge Auditorium. She is the third visitor in the 1998-99 Jean and Bill Lane Lecture Series in the Creative Writing Program.
Olds also will conduct a colloquium at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 6, in Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460), room 426.
Both events are free and open to the public.
The Lane Lecture Series recently was permanently endowed by Ambassador and Mrs. Lane on the occasion of its 15-year anniversary.
Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford in 1964 and a doctorate from Columbia University in 1972. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award and her work ever since has drawn attention for its complex and vivid evocations of ordinary experience.
The author of five acclaimed books
of poetry, including The Gold Cell (1987) and, most
recently, The Wellspring (1996), Olds lives in New York
City, where she teaches at New York University and in the NYU
workshop program she founded for disabled residents at Goldwater
Hospital. She is the state poet of New York and a recipient of many
honors for her poetry, including the National Book Critics Circle
Award for her second book, The Dead and the Living, which
was also the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American
Poets for 1983. SR