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Alan Richard Shapiro (born February 18, 1952, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Shapiro's poetry books include Tantalus in Love , Song and Dance , and Dead Alive and Busy .
Alan R. Shapiro. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Alan Shapiro was educated at Brandeis University. As the author of numerous collections of poetry, Shapiro has explored family, loss, domesticity, and the daily aspects of people’s lives in free verse and traditional poetic forms. He has published over ten books of poetry, most recently Life Pig ...
Alan Shapiro has published many books of poetry and prose, including Reel to Reel, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Night of the Republic, finalist for both the National Book Award and the International Griffin Prize, The Dead Alive and Busy, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, and Mixed Company, winner of the LA Times Book Prize. His new books ...
Alan Shapiro was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 18, 1952, and graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he studied poetry with Galway Kinnell and J. V. Cunningham. Shapiro has received the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry, a Lila ...
The reading will be followed by a Q&A and a book-signing reception with the author. KPS is especially grateful to Alan Shapiro, for his work and for the donation of his time to benefit the series. Prior to the reading, he will lead workshops in the community. This interview was conducted via email by KPS interviewer, Ann van Buren.
Alan Shapiro has written many books of poetry and prose, most recently Against Translation, That Self-Forgetful Perfectly Useless Concentration, and Reel to Reel, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and an American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, among others, and has received fellowships from both the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Alan Shapiro is the author of nine volumes of poetry, the most recent of which are Tantalus in Love (2005) and Song and Dance (2002), both from Houghton Mifflin; two prizewinning memoirs, The Last Happy Occasion and Vigil, both published in 1997 by the University of Chicago; a work of criticism, In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination: Essays, 1980-1991 (Northwestern University, 1993); and a translation of The Oresteia (Oxford University, 2004).
