Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro has published 14 poetry collections (most recently, “Proceed to Check Out,” “Against Translation,” “Reel to Reel,” finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and “Night of the Republic,” finalist for both the National Book Award and the International Griffin Prize), 4 books of prose, including “The Last Happy Occasion,” finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award, LA Times Book Prize, an award in literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, he is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is professor emeritus from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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