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1. www.poetryfoundation.org › poets › alan-r-shapiroAlan R. Shapiro - Poetry Foundation

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   Photo by Roger Haile. 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.

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2. www.poetryfoundation.org › poems › 42747Song and Dance by Alan R. Shapiro | Poetry Foundation

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   Dark. dining room, bright kitchen, white steam. from the big pot my mother’s stirring. reaching in wavy tendrils to her face, around her face, all the way around. to me at the table, then beyond me. into the darkness where my brother is.

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   What is Shapiro's poetry about?

   • Shapiro’s poetry is steeped in the drama and loss of domestic life, traversing the line between the public and private spheres. Of Shapiro’s work, poet Tom Sleigh has written,

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   Who is Alan Shapiro?

   • Alan Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, and a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. During Bill Clinton’s presidency, Shapiro was invited to read his work at the White House. He read “On Men Weeping,” a poem about Michael Jordan winning one of his six NBA championships.

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   Did Shapiro read a poem about Michael Jordan?

   • During Bill Clinton’s presidency, Shapiro was invited to read his work at the White House. He read “On Men Weeping,” a poem about Michael Jordan winning one of his six NBA championships. Shapiro has taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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   What happened to Shapiro's siblings?

   • Shapiro’s later collections address the loss of his two siblings to cancer, the aging of his parents, and the strains on a marriage.

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4. www.poetryfoundation.org › poems › 42706Covenant by Alan R. Shapiro | Poetry Foundation

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   Covenant. By Alan R. Shapiro. The oldest sister, her two hands on the table, about to push herself up, stares with grim. determination at the affronting dishes, waiting, it seems, until the middle sister. finishes her story, so she can clear them away. Her gaze so tense with purpose she can almost.

5. 32poems.com › prose-features › look-hes-movingLook! He’s Moving!: An Interview with Alan Shapiro - 32 Poems

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   He’s Moving!: An Interview with Alan Shapiro. Alan Shapiro is the author of eleven books of poetry including Night of the Republic, a finalist for both the National Book Award and The Griffin Prize, and four books of prose including the novel Broadway Baby (Algonquin Books, 2012). He’s won numerous awards including The Kingsley Tufts Award ...

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     March 18 - “Sunflower” Poem by Alan Shapiro | read by Kirk Lawrence

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7. poets.org › poet › alan-shapiroAbout Alan Shapiro | Academy of American Poets

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   Read poems by this poet. 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 published numerous poetry collections, including By and By (Waywiser Press, 2023); Life Pig (University of ...

8. press.uchicago.edu › ucp › booksProceed to Check Out, Shapiro - The University of Chicago Press

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   Alan Shapiro’s fourteenth collection of poetry, Proceed to Check Out, is a kind of summing up, or stock-taking, by an aging poet, of his precarious place in a world dominated by the ever-accelerating pace of technological innovation, political disruption, personal loss, and racial strife.

9. griffinpoetryprize.com › poet › alan-shapiroAlan Shapiro - Griffin Poetry Prize

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   Night of the Republic 2013 Shortlist. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, USA. Purchase. Judges’ Citation. This extraordinary poetic sequence, Alan Shapiro’s eleventh book, is an attempt to enter and diagnose a pervasive emptiness at the heart of contemporary American life. Read Full Citation. Selected poems. by Alan Shapiro. Over the lot a sodium aura.