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    American poet and essayist (1913-2000)

    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. Shapiro served in the Pacific Theater as a United States Army company clerk during World War II. Wikipedia

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    Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 - May 14, 2000) was an American poet.He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945 for his collection V-Letter and Other Poems. [1] He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.. Shapiro served in the Pacific Theater as a United States Army company clerk during World War II.
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    Karl Shapiro was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and he studied the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University. His poetry received early recognition, winning a number of major poetry awards in the 1940s, including the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Academy of Arts and Letters Grant, and the Contemporary Poetry Prize. ...
  5. allpoetry.com

    Karl Shapiro was an American poet who rose to prominence in the mid-20th century. He is remembered for his direct and accessible style, which often explored themes of war, masculinity, and Jewish identity. His work was characterized by a strong narrative voice, wit, and an unflinching examination of contemporary social issues.
  6. britannica.com

    Karl Shapiro was an American poet and critic whose verse ranges from passionately physical love lyrics to sharp social satire. Educated at the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, Shapiro first came to critical attention in 1942 with Person, Place and Thing, a celebration of his.
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  7. encyclopedia.com

    SHAPIRO, Karl Jay (b. 10 November 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland; d. 12 May 2000 in New York City), noted poet, critic, professor, and editor who was named consultant in poetry (the position now called U.S. poet laureate) at the Library of Congress in 1946.His work won the prestigious Bollingen Prize for poetry in 1969. Born Carl Jay Shapiro, Shapiro was the second son of Joseph Shapiro, a ...
  8. best-poems.net

    Karl Shapiro was a known american poet and author of 16 poetry collections. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945, while Shapiro was still in the military. Shapiro was also appointed american Poet Laureate in 1946 and 1947. In 1963, Randall Jarrell about his work: 'Karl Shapiro's poems are fresh and young and rash and live; their hard clear outlines, their flat bold colors ...
  9. Karl Shapiro - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Born in 1913, Karl Shapiro is the author of V-Letter and Other Poems (1945), which won the Pulitzer Prize.
  10. Karl Shapiro (1913-2000) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and received his bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University. He wrote and published V-Letter and Other Poems during his service in World War II's Pacific Theater, and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945. Shapiro taught at the University of Nebraska from 1956 ...
  11. simple.wikipedia.org

    Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913 - May 14, 2000) was an American poet. Shapiro was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 1939, he was in the U. S. Army for most of World War II. He wrote poems and sent them home to be printed during the war. [1]
  12. encyclopedia.com

    Karl Shapiro, 1913-2000, American poet and critic, b. Baltimore, studied Univ. of Virginia, Johns Hopkins. His interests in the aesthetics and artifice of modern poetry and the role of the poet as cultural spokesperson are expressed in his poems and his criticism. Source for information on Shapiro, Karl: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. dictionary.

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