Karl shapiro poet biography
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Karl Shapiro
Born on November 10, , in Baltimore, Karl Jay Shapiro attended the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University. He graduated in and served in the army for the duration of World War II. Shapiro's poetry began to be published during the war; while stationed in New Guinea, he would send poems home to his fiancée, who then had them printed. Collections of these form the bulk of his best-known work: Person, Place, and Thing (), Place of Love (), Essay on Rime (), and V-Letter and Other Poems (), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Shapiro was editor of Poetry magazine from to
Shapiro then became a member of the English faculty at the University of NebraskaLincoln, where he was the editor of Prairie Schooner from There he solicited and published many important twentieth-century poets, including Richard Eberhart, Josephine Jacobsen, Josephine Miles, John Frederick Nims, Octavio Paz, and William Carlos Williams. Shapiro's fame broke important ground for Jew
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Karl Shapiro
American poet
Not to be confused with Carl Shapiro.
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, – May 14, ) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems.[1] He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in
Shapiro served in the Pacific Theater as a United States Armycompany clerk during World War II.
Biography
[edit]Shapiro was born and initially raised in Baltimore, Maryland. After spending much of his childhood and adolescence in Chicago, Illinois, the family returned to Baltimore, where he completed his secondary education at Baltimore City College.[2] He briefly attended the University of Virginia during the academic year,[3] and wrote about it in a critical poem called "University", which noted that "to hurt the Negro and avoid the Jew is the curriculum."[4] His first volume of poetry was published by a family fr
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Karl Shapiro papers
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Karl Shapiro () was an American poet and literary critic who was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was strongly influenced by the works of W. H. Auden, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams. His work has been recognized with a number of major awards, including the Pulitzer prize for V-Letter and Other Poems in ; he later became consultant in poetry at the Library of församling. He also published a novel, an autobiography, and poetry anthologies. Shapiro taught at many universities, including Johns Hopkins University, University of Nebraska, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, and University of California, Davis. His papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts of poems, and photographs and are mostly from to
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- Creation: circa
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