Wednesday, February 5 1997

"Sharon Olds' poems are pure fire in the hands..." -Michael Ondaatje

"...a lyrical acuity which is both purifying and redemptive."--David Leavitt

Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer-prize and National Book Award-winner, author of numerous books of poetry, including The Book of Nightmares, Body Rags, and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words will read from his recent Imperfect Thirst and other poems.

Sharon Olds, author of Satan Says and the recent The Wellspring, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Dead and the Living.