Black and white photograph of American poet Sharon Olds.

Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds received a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for her twelfth poetry collection, Stag’s Leap. Asked how she wrote it, Olds replied, “I have to write a poem the moment it comes to me, or sometimes half an hour later, or the next day if I’m in the middle of something, because only then do I have the feeling that is so full in me that it feels the need to spill over into an expression of itself.”

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