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Sharon Olson
Sharon Olson reads several selections from The Long Night of Flying, her first full-length collection of poetry. (Running Time: 8:34)
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Sharon Olson lives in Palo Alto, California, where she has been a reference librarian and cataloger at the Palo Alto City Library since 1978. She earned a B.A. in Art History from Stanford and attended its campus in Florence, Italy in 1967. She also has an M.L.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Oregon. Her chapbook, Clouds Brushed in Later, was selected by Carolyn Forche as the winner of the Abby Niebauer Memorial Chapbook award and was published by the San Jose Poetry Center Press in 1987. The Long Night of Flying is her first full-length collection of poems.
