Poet Sharon Olds at the Writers Institute in 2004

Here's a YouTube video of new 2013 Pulitzer Prize winning poet and former New York State Poet Laureate Sharon Olds with poet Edward Hirsch at the Writers Institute in 2004. She confesses: "I tend to write a lot. Most of it's bad. That just how it is for me." But she adds that the fact that she doesn't need to show a poem to anyone gives her a certain freedom to write what she wants.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut97FMOY7M8&feature=youtu.be

More about their joint visit:

http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/olds_sharon-and-hirsch_edward.html

Olds served as the official State Poet under our sponsorship 1998-2000.