Lloyd Schwartz

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Lloyd Schwartz

Lloyd Schwartz (born November 29, 1941) is an American

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poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston

University of Massachusetts Boston

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. He is also Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air
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.

Lloyd Schwartz was born in Brooklyn

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, New York

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, graduated from Queens College, New York in 1962 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976.

Schwartz's most recent book of poetry is Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press, 2000

2000 in poetry

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), which was preceded by Goodnight, Gracie (1992

1992 in poetry

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) and These People (1981

1981 in poetry

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).

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Lloyd Schwartz (born November 29, 1941) is an American

United States

University of Massachusetts Boston

Brooklyn

New York

2000 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
), which was preceded by Goodnight, Gracie (1992

1992 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
) and These People (1981

1981 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
). He edited the collection Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan Press, 1983).

Schwartz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by Columbia University....
in 1994 for his work with The Phoenix.

Most recently, Schwartz served as co-editor of an edition of the collected works of Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer. She was the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956....
for the Library of America, entitled Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008).