Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro has published more than 10 poetry collections, most recently Life Pig(2016); Reel to Reel(2014), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; andNight of the Republic(2012), a finalist for the National Book Award and the Griffin Prize.  In addition, he has written two memoirs—The Last Happy Occasionand Virgil— as well as a novel, Broadway Baby.  He is the recipient of numerous poetry prizes, including two National Endowment of the Arts awards, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library.  Since 1995, Shapiro has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  His newest poetry collection, Against Translation,will be published by University of Chicago Press in the spring of 2019.