National Poetry Month: Sharon Olds April 9, 2013

University of Richmond will celebrate National Poetry Month with a reading by Sharon Olds, award-winning author of eight volumes of poetry April 9, 7 p.m., in Keller Hall. The program is free and open to the public.
Olds uses sensuality, humor and imagery to write about domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationships, love and the body. Her numerous honors include an NEA grant, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and being New York State Poet Laureate from 1998–2000.
She won the San Francisco Poetry Center award for her collection “Satan Says” and received the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award for “The Dead and the Living.”
Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly and The New York Times. Olds teaches graduate poetry workshops at New York University and helped found a writing workshop at a 900-bed state hospital for the severely disabled. Her most recent collection, “Stag’s Leap,” was published in September 2012 and won Britain's T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize.
The reading is part of “Performing Texts,” a series of guest performances sponsored by the Richmond’s English department with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
For more information, contact Emily Poore at 804-289-8287.