Alan Shapiro. Courtesy Blackbird.
Alan R. Shapiro (born February 18, 1952) is an American poet and academic.[1]
Life[]
Shapiro was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he studied poetry with Galway Kinnell and J.V. Cunningham.[2]
ALAN SHAPIRO - Poets in Person - Episode 3-0
Shapiro teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,[3] where he is Kenan Professor of English.[4]
He is the author of many poetry books, including Tantalus in Love, Song and Dance, and The Dead Alive and Busy.[3]
Shapiro has also published two personal memoirs, Vigil and The Last Happy Occasion.[5]
Recognition[]
Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award and an LA Times Book Award in poetry, and has been a finalist in poetry and nonfiction for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors include two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, the Sarah Teasdale Award from Wellesley College, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4]
Awards[]
- 2005 North Carolina Book Award, Tantalus In Love [6]
- 2012 National Book Award (Poetry), finalist, Night of the Republic [7]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- After the Digging. Chicago: Elpenor Books, 1981; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
- The Courtesy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Happy Hour. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
- Covenant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
- Mixed Company. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- The Dead Alive and Busy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
- Selected Poems. Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press, 2000.
- Song and Dance. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002,
- Tantalus in Love. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
- Old War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
- Night of the Republic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2011.
Novel[]
- Broadway Baby. Algonquin Press, 2011.
Non-fiction[]
- In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the ethical imagination: Essays, 1980–1991. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press (Triquarterly Books), 1993.
- The Last Happy Occasion (memoir) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
- Vigil (memoir). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Translated[]
- The Oresteia. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Euripides, The Trojan Women. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Edited[]
- The Complete Aeschylus (edited with Peter Burian). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2011. Volume I: The Oresteia, Volume II: Persians, and other plays.
Poet Alan Shapiro reads from Night of the Republic
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy Alan Shapiro.[1]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Curriculum Vitae, Alan Shapiro, University of North Carolina. Web, Dec. 4, 2012.
- ↑ Alan Shapiro, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Feb. 14, 2015.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 houghtonmifflinbooks
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alan R. Shapiro, University of North Carolina. Web, Feb. 14, 2015.
- ↑ Creative Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- ↑ "N.C. Book Awards for fiction, poetry, go to Naumoff, Shapiro". The News & Observer: The Chapel Hill News, p. A4, Nov. 20, 2005.
- ↑ "National Book Award Finalists Announced Today". Library Journal. October 10, 2012. http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
External links[]
- Poems
- Alan Shapiro at Blackbird (4 poems)
- Alan R. Shapiro at the Poetry Foundation
- Alan Shapiro at the Academy of American Poets (profile & 4 poems)
- Audio / video
- Alan Shapiro reads "Sickbed", Griffin Poetry Prize reading
- Alan Shapiro at YouTube
- Books
- Alan Shapiro at Amazon.com
- About
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