Sharon Olson

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Princeton Public Library National Poetry Month featured poet

Apr.03.2008

Princeton Public Library National Poetry Month featured poet

Hear Sharon Olson read poems as the featured poet for April 3rd during the 2008 Princeton Public Library National Poetry Month podcast.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.02.2006

The Long Night of Flying

In The Long Night of Flying, Sharon Olson’s engaging first collection, the reader is taken on a journey into a world of vulnerability, incipience, and mystery. There is a textured richness in the poet’s tenaciously precise take on the world around us, whether its subject matter is the theft of a Vermeer, an indictment of the brutalities of war, or the loss of the poet’s brother in...

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.1987

Clouds Brushed in Later

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mayday

Poets for Living Waters is a poetry action in response to the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico begun on April 20, 2010, one of the most profound human-made ecological catastrophes in history. They included my poem "mayday" on their open mike page which can be read here: http://poetsgulfcoast.wordpress.com/open-mic-n-r/

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Sharon's Latest Blogs

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Jan.08.2008 - 8:07 pm

Narrative tangles (an entry from my blog "slopoet tells all")

The other night I was reading a book about Kandinsky in Munich, looking at so many wonderful paintings. Also read about him making costumes for the theater. Some of his early...

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Poem: Genealogy at the Store, Even

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Feb.10.2011

The Long Night of Flying

Published by Goodreads

Some lovely pieces here. A mature woman's perspective on life and death and love. A generous intelligence. Concrete and satisfying poems. I was enthralled by this collection and...

About Sharon

Sharon Olson has recently moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey (after living three and a half years in Guilford, Connecticut). She retired in 2007 from the Palo Alto (California) City Library where she had been a reference librarian and cataloger since...

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Causes Sharon Olson Supports

Move On
Doctors Without Borders
Peninsula Peace and Justice Center