Sharon Olds sends a letter to Mrs. Bush.
I attended NYU’s Creative Writing Program where Sharon Olds teaches poetry. While I never took her class, I did meet her and hear her read. Her poems are personal and powerful. I’ve also been to readings by Goldwater Students (the program she refers to in the letter) and each time the readings were beyond profound, awesomely inspiring and exceedingly entertaining.
Thanks for that.
Good for her, very well said, and hooray for poets who stick to their guns! I am not a fan of Sharon Olds’s poetry (a lot of it that I read was of the “a poem about my uterus” variety and I just can’t take that after a while), but her personal convictions are clearly strong, and I’m glad she stood by them. Thank you for linking to her letter!
I love Sharon Olds, uterus and all. I think her stuff on motherhood is great.
great, great letter. thanks for the link.
OMG! THANK YOU!!!!!
Sharon Olds is coming to my Writer’s Conference this summer as a distinguished visiting writer, and I am doing whatever in my power to get back for it. Thank YOU for linking this so that others of us, especially writers, can see one of our own standing strong against the tyrrany.
Thank YOU.