ALAN SHAPIRO
Alan Shapiro’s
poetry collections and memoirs have received many awards including the
William Carlos Williams Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship
and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the
W. R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of English at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Shapiro’s new collection, Old
War, will be published in 2008.
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