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Alan Shapiro
Alan Shapiro is the author of 15 books of poetry (including Reel to Reel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Night of the Republic, a finalist for both the National Book Award and The Griffin Prize), two memoirs, a novel, two books of critical essays, and two translations. Shapiro has taught at Stanford University, Northwestern University, Warren Wilson College (in its low residency MFA program for writers), and from 1995 to 2021 he was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina.
Praise for Diver
Alan Shapiro's beautifully constructed poems are both celebratory and elegiac, and they remind us that love may arrive at the last minute, that laughter is one form of wisdom, and that intricate thoughts and feelings can be articulated syntactically and often ecstatically in sentences that give off their own light.
