Harvey Shapiro

HARVEY SHAPIRO's parents came from a rural village outside Kiev, but he became an urban poet, whom Cynthia Ozick has called "the American urban poet." Shapiro was born in Chicago and lives in Brooklyn. He has published eight other volumes of poetry. He has worked on magazines and newspapers since 1955, first on Commentary and The New Yorker, then on The New York Times Magazine, of which he was assistant editor from 1964 to 1975, then editor of the New York Times Book Review from 1975 to 1983....See more

HARVEY SHAPIRO's parents came from a rural village outside Kiev, but he became an urban poet, whom Cynthia Ozick has called "the American urban poet." Shapiro was born in Chicago and lives in Brooklyn. He has published eight other volumes of poetry. He has worked on magazines and newspapers since 1955, first on Commentary and The New Yorker, then on The New York Times Magazine, of which he was assistant editor from 1964 to 1975, then editor of the New York Times Book Review from 1975 to 1983. He is now a deputy editor of the Magazine. He has served on the editorial boards of Poetry New York and Epoch and received a Rockefeller Foundation grant in poetry in 1967. He has taught English at Cornell and poetry workshops at Columbia and Yale. Shapiro is a graduate of Yale (B.A. 1947) and of Columbia (M.A. 1948). He was a gunner in a B-17 in the Second World War, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters. See less