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Charles Simic Reads Sharon Olds

The New Yorker: Poetry

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Recognizing and Celebrating Poetic Excellence

The podcast invites renowned poets like Charles Simic to select and discuss a poem from the New Yorker archive, then read one of their own published poems. In this episode, Charles Simic introduces Sharon Olds' poem 'Her Birthday as Ashes in Sea Water' and praises her extensive work on family, particularly her mother, marking the significance of her poetry.

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