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2 days ago · A literary prodigy, Mr. Shapiro was already publishing poems in European and South African journals by the age of 10. At 14, he published a poem in The Antioch Review, his first in the United States.
3 days ago · Among Dr. Shapiro’s most noted poems was “The Funeral of Jan Palach,” about the Czech student who died after publicly setting himself on fire in Prague in early 1969 to protest the Soviet ...
2 days ago · I’m working on a series of poems set in museums, usually starting with a particular painting. They’re about the ways we experience art via the text on the wall, things we overhear other visitors saying, and the expectations we bring to the act of being in a museum. I’m interested in the details we overlook when we first see the painting.
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1 day ago · PressReader. Catalog; For You; The Day. David Shapiro, unwitting protest icon, dies at 77 2024-05-11 - By EMILY LANGER . David Shapiro, a poet and art historian who was widely admired for his erudition and indelibly remembered — to his chagrin — as the defiant, cigar-wielding student in a photo that was taken during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University and came to represent the era’s ...
4 days ago · David Shapiro, a renowned poet and unwitting icon of the 1968 campus protest movement, has tragically passed away at the age of 77. The news of his death has sent shockwaves through the literary and activist communities, as Shapiro was known for his powerful words and his unwavering commitment to social justice.
2 days ago · David Joel Shapiro was born on Jan. 2, 1947, in Newark, N.J., the third of four children of Dr. Irving Shapiro, a dermatologist, and Fraida (Chagy) Shapiro, a schoolteacher. He spent summers in Deal, a breezy seaside borough on the Jersey Shore near Asbury Park, which he later invoked in his lauded 1969 collection, “Poems From Deal.”
May 1, 2024 · Believing Life Goes On After Death. I had an epiphany one starry night thinking of my mom and brother. They have both have passed. In my grief, I considered the miraculous existence of our universe and the wonders of time and space. This poem explores my belief that life is too complex to end at physical death.
