BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 RDATE:20130310T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 RDATE:20131103T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131111T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131111T183000 LOCATION:Manor House\, Armstrong Lounge GEO:45.450219;-122.670175 SUMMARY:A Poetry Reading by Alan Shapiro DESCRIPTION:Please join the English Department in the Manor House for an evening with award-winning poet Alan Shapiro\, author of 11 books of poet ry\, including the critically acclaimed "The Last Happy Hour\," and\, mos t recently\, "Night of the Republic." \; Shapiro currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Refreshments will be pr ovided. \; Born in Boston\, Massachusetts\, Alan Shapiro was educa ted at Brandeis University. As the author of numerous collections of poet ry\, Shapiro has explored family\, loss\, domesticity\, and the daily asp ects of people's lives in free verse and traditional poetic forms. Poet- critic JD McClatchy (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html? id=4520) observed in a review of Shapiro's Dead\, Alive and Busy (2000)\, "Mr. Shapiro is a shrewd and sympathetic moralist. He never trivializes his subjects with high-minded flourishes or stylistic gimmicks." Shapiro' s later collections address the loss of his two siblings to cancer\, the aging of his parents\, and the strains on a marriage. In describing the d omestic details and loss portrayed in Shapiro's Tantalus in Love (2005)\, poet Joshua Clover (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id =81898) commented\, "Such tightly framed tales of domesticity offer a sen se of control parallel to Shapiro's formal facility\, reducing and clarif ying the poem's field of action in defense against an abysmal multiplicit y of things." In his memoirs The Last Happy Occasion (1997)\, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award\, and Vigil (1997)\, Shapiro has written about the death of his sister and the role that poetry has playe d in his life. Shapiro is also the author of a collection of essays on po etry\, In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination: Essay s\, 1980–1991 (1993). Alan Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Los Angeles Book Prize\, and a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writers ' Award. During Bill Clinton's presidency\, Shapiro was invited to read h is work at the White House. He read "On Men Weeping\," a poem about Micha el Jordan winning a basketball championship. Shapiro has taught at Stanfo rd University and the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill.  \ ;(information from The Poetry Foundation) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Please join the English Department in t he Manor House for an evening with award-winning poet Alan Shapiro\, auth or of 11 books of poetry\, including the critically acclaimed "The Last H appy Hour\," and\, most recently\, "Night of the Republic." \; Shapir o currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. R efreshments will be provided.
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Born in Boston\, Ma
ssachusetts\, Alan Shapiro was educated at Brandeis University. As the au
thor of numerous collections of poetry\, Shapiro has explored family\, lo
ss\, domesticity\, and the daily aspects of people's lives in free verse
and traditional poetic forms.
Poet-critic JD McClatchy observed in a review of Shapiro's Dead\, Alive an
d Busy (2000)\, "Mr. Shapiro is a shrewd and sympathetic moralist. H
e never trivializes his subjects with high-minded flourishes or stylistic
gimmicks." Shapiro's later collections address the loss of his two sibli
ngs to cancer\, the aging of his parents\, and the strains on a marriage.
In describing the domestic details and loss portrayed in Shapiro's T
antalus in Love (2005)\, poet Joshua Clover
commented\, "Such tightly framed tales of domesticity offer a sense of co
ntrol parallel to Shapiro's formal facility\, reducing and clarifying the
poem's field of action in defense against an abysmal multiplicity of thi
ngs."
In his memoirs The Last Happy Occasion (1997)
\, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award\, and Vigil (1997)\, Shapiro has written about the death of his sister and the role
that poetry has played in his life. Shapiro is also the author of a coll
ection of essays on poetry\, In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the
Ethical Imagination: Essays\, 1980–1991 (1993).
Alan
Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award\, the Los Angeles Book Prize\, a
nd a Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writers' Award. During Bill Clinton's
presidency\, Shapiro was invited to read his work at the White House. He
read "On Men Weeping\," a poem about Michael Jordan winning a basketball
championship. Shapiro has taught at Stanford University and the Universi
ty of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill.
\;
(informatio n from The Poetry Foundation)
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