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

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   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 ...

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     Astronomy Lesson. By Alan R. Shapiro. The two boys lean out...

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

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   1952 –. 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 ...

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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.

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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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   Is David Shapiro a surreal poet?

   • In the Rocky Mountain Review, Carl Whithaus wrote, “To call David Shapiro a poet of the surreal, of collage, of the erotic, of endless transition, of formless form, of fin-de- siècle regret is to touch upon the variety of poetic techniques he has explored … he has refused to write poetry which organizes the real into a clean and neat poetic.”

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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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4. poets.org › poem › sleetSleet by Alan Shapiro - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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   Shapiro has published over ten poetry collections, including Reel to Reel (University of Chicago Press, 2014); Night of the Republic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), a finalist for the 2013 Griffin Poetry Prize and National Book Award; and Old War (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008), winner of the Ambassador Book Award.

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Alan_ShapiroAlan Shapiro - Wikipedia

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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. In addition to poetry, Shapiro has published two personal memoirs ...

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7. poets.org › poem › hauntingThe Haunting by Alan Shapiro - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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   Alan Shapiro 1952 – It may not be the ghostly ballet of our avoidances that they’ll remember, nor the long sulks of those last months, nor the voices chilly with all the anger we were careful mostly not to show in front of them, nor anything at all that made our choice to live apart seem to us both not only unavoidable but good, but just.