A Poetry Lesson with Sharon Olds

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 21, 2016

Sharon Olds, award-winning poet who teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and author of Stag's Leap: Poems (Knopf, 2012), offers an assignment and insight into writing poetry.

Advice for young poets: Take your vitamins. Exercise. Talk kindly to yourself. -@Old_Sharon pic.twitter.com/p8fam1aF1R
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 21, 2016

.@Old_Sharon loves surprises in poetry.

"It gives you that fresh feeling that you’re being given, by the writer, a new view on something."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 21, 2016

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