(1913-11-10)November 10, 1913 Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Died
May 14, 2000(2000-05-14) (aged 86) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Poet, essayist
Education
University of Virginia Peabody Institute Johns Hopkins University
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1945) Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1969)
Spouse
Evalyn Katz (1945–1967) Teri Kovach (1967-1982) Sophie Wilkins (1984-2000)
Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 – May 14, 2000) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 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 1946.
Shapiro served in the Pacific Theater as a United States Army company clerk during World War II.
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platitudinous and frequently silly." Pulitzer Prize-winning US Poet Laureate KarlShapiro said, "It is irrelevant to speak of McKuen as a poet. His poetry is not...
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in the 1940s: Richard Wilbur, Muriel Rukeyser, John Frederick Nims, KarlShapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell...
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