‘And I Will Tell About It:’ The Poetry of Sharon Olds
Explore the radical work of one of contemporary poetry’s true greats as inspiration for your own writing.
* This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM *
Sharon Olds’s poems broke ground when they appeared on the poetry scene in the 1970s. The narrative one stanza poems with their surprising line breaks and abundant similes bluntly exploring marital intimacy and motherhood were unheard of at the time. In this course we will dive into poems spanning Olds’s career beginning with poems from her first collection, Satan Says, and then moving through poems in The Dead and the Living and The Gold Cell and the subsequent books up to the most recent poems. Prompts to generate new poems will be given after the first session. The second session will be spent workshopping student poems inspired by Olds.
2 x half-day sessions, running 2–4.30pm (BST/GMT), on 30 Oct & 6 Nov 2024. This course will take place on the video-conferencing platform ZOOM.
To apply for a concession rate, please send relevant documentation showing your eligibility for one of our concessions to [email protected]. Conditions of eligibility are detailed here. More information about how our Video Courses work can be found on the Video Courses page. If you have any questions or wish to be added to the waiting list of a sold-out course, please email [email protected].
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About Eve Grubin 
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Eve Grubin is the author of Morning Prayer (Sheep Meadow Press) and Grief Dialogue and The House of Our First Loving (both from Rack Press). Her next book of poems Boat of Letters will be published by Four Way Books. Her essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History Lore and Politics (U of CA Press). Eve was the programs director at the Poetry Society of America and has taught at The New School, and the City College of New York. She is a lecturer at New York University London. www.evegrubin.com.
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