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Karl Shapiro

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Gender Male
Death23 years ago
Date of birth November 10,1913
Zodiac sign Scorpio
Born Baltimore
Maryland
United States
Date of died May 14,2000
DiedNew York
New York
United States
Spouse Sophie Wilkins
Teri Kovach
Evalyn Katz
Job Poet
Author
Essayist
Education Johns Hopkins University
University of Virginia
Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
United States Poet Laureate
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Bollingen Prize
NationalityAmerican
Notabl award Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Date of Upd.
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Poems of a Jew
A prosody handbook
White-haired lover
To abolish children
Adult bookstore
Creative glut
Poet: The younger son
Collected poems 1940-1978
The wild card
The Old Horsefly
New & selected poems, 1940-1986
Love & war, art & God
A bibliography of modern prosody
Coda: Last Poems
English prosody and modern poetry
Edsel
Selected Poems
The Poetry Wreck: Selected Essays, 1950-1970
Essay on Rime: With Trial of a Poet
The bourgeois poet, Poems of a Jew, Essay on Rime
Essay on Rime
The bourgeois poet
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Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

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