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"Karl Shapiro"
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Karl Shapiro
(Karl Jay Shapiro)
1887 - 1975
Poet
Poet Laureate
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 1945
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Karl Shapiro
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Karl Shapiro was
born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 10, 1913. After
graduating from high school there, he enrolled at the University
of Virginia but found that he was more interested in writing
than studying and soon withdrew. While at various jobs in
Baltimore and studying his own, Shapiro wrote "many long poems
and plays in verse, nearly all of which I later destroyed"; the
collection of shorter poems that he published in 1935 went
largely unnoticed. He resumed his formal education at John
Hopkins University but was inducted into the Army before
receiving his degree and served in the South Pacific until the
Second World War was over. While overseas, Shapiro continued to
write poetry, while his fiancée Evelyn Katz (whom he married in
1945) sought successfully to get it published. His book,
V-Letter, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1945. When he
returned to civilian life, he was well known in American letters
and served for a year as poetry consultant to the Library of
Congress; he then taught at John Hopkins. In 1950 he succeeded
Hayden Carruth as editor of Poetry magazine, a post he
held until 1956, when he joined the faculty of the University of
Nebraska and became editor of Prairie Schooner. He
presently teaches at the University of California at Davis.
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Ellmann,
Richard and Robert O'Clair. Modern Poems: An Introduction to
Poetry.
New York: W.W. Nortin & Company, 1973, p. 316.
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