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 Purchase, NY - Sharon Olds an award-winning poet and educator will give the 2009 Royal & Shirley Durst Distinguished Lecture at Purchase College State University of New York on Monday, October 19 at 7 PM in the Performing Arts Center.
Admission is free. Her talk is presented by the Purchase College School of Humanities.
Purchase College is located at 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, New York.
Ms. Olds is the author of eight volumes of poetry including, most recently, One Secret Thing (2008). Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, and more than a hundred poetry collections.
She was the New York State Poet from 1998-2000. Sharon Olds teaches graduate poetry workshops at New York University as well as a writing workshop she helped found at a 900-bed state hospital for the severely disabled on Roosevelt Island. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Her numerous honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. A native of San Francisco, she completed undergraduate work at Stamford University and graduate work at Columbia University. She lives in New York City.
Tickets are available at The Performing Arts Center Box Office 914-251-6200 or visit www.artscenter.org.
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