Poetry

Who is Sharon Olds? Sharon Olds is an American poet, born in San Francisco in 1942. She has a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and made her debut as a writer in 1980 with the poetry collection Satan Says. Since then, she has established herself as one of the most read, most decorated, and most controversial North American contemporary poets.  Read more

Amanda Gorman already knows you want her to save the world. "Young people are expected to rescue everyone, even when we're struggling to rescue ourselves," she tells me in the same clear, strident voice she used to deliver her poem "The Hill We Climb," which she performed at President Biden's 2021 inauguration.

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On Mar. 13, 2020, I posted a piece of writing to my small group of friends on Facebook. My response to lockdown during the first anxious stage of a pandemic was a brief prose poem told from the future, describing the choices we'd made in facing the virus. That night, a friend asked if she could repost it. "Sure," I replied, and that was that.

Joelle Taylor has won the TS Eliot poetry prize for her look at butch lesbian counterculture in the 1990s, C+nto & Othered Poems, praised by judges as "a blazing book of rage and light".