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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.
Our reigning State Poet, Marie Howe, comments (officially) on Sharon Olds' winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Stag's Leap:
"Sharon olds has
been writing life altering poems so deeply and well and so long it's not
possible to imagine american poetry without her."
(Sent from her iPhone)
Sharon Olds, who served as New York State Poet Laureate under our sponsorship (1998-2000), has just received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Stag's Leap.
Writers Institute State Poet page for Sharon Olds: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/olds.html
"Like Whitman, Ms. Olds sings the body in celebration of a power stronger than political oppression." --New York Times
"The First Thanksgiving" by former New York State Poet Sharon Olds (1998-2000):
When she comes back, from college, I will see
the skin of her upper arms, cool,
matte, glossy. She will hug me, my old
soupy chest against her breasts,
I will smell her hair! She will sleep in this apartment,
her sleep like an untamed, good object,
like a soul in a body. More