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Lloyd Schwartz

author_statement: 
Frederick S. Troy Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston (MFA Program); Regular correspondent on classical music and the arts, Fresh Air with Terry Gross (NPR); Senior Editor of Classical Music, New York Arts (www.newyorkarts.net); Classical Music Editor, The Boston Phoenix, 1976-2013; Editor. Elizabeth Bishop Prose (FSG); Co-editor, Elizabeth Bishop, Poetry, Prose, and Letters (Library of America); Co-editor, Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (U of Michigan Press); Editor, Ploughshares, Vol. 5, No. 2
Prizes Won: 
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, 1994; Associates of the Boston Public Library "Literary Light," 1995; NEA Creative Writing Fellowship Grant, 1990; Pushcart Prize, 1987; ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, 1980, 1987, 1990; Runner-up, Gustav Davidson Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 1990; Daniel Varoujan Prize, New England Poetry Club, 1984
Private E-mail: 
lloyd.schwartz@umb.edu
With whom do you prefer to work?: 
Prisoners
Hospital patients
How do you want to identify yourself?: 
Caucasian
Jewish
Born in (Country): 
United States
Born in (City): 
Brooklyn
Raised in (Country): 
United States
Raised in (City): 
New York
Raised in (State): 
New York
First Name: 
Lloyd
Photo of the Author: 

harbor_cruise_9-09_lloyd.jpg

Last Name: 
Schwartz
Yes
Are you interested in giving readings?: 
Yes
Are you willing to travel to give readings?: 
Yes
Legacy Writer ID: 
1327
Listed as: 
Poet
Application Accepted: 
Application Accepted
Phone: 
617-666-3233
E-mail: 
lloyd.schwartz@umb.edu [1]
N/A
Somerville, MA 02145-2217
link 0: 
Academy of American Poets listing [2]
link 0, location and date: 
Poets.org
link 1: 
Poetry reading on Fresh Air, NPR [3]
link 1, location and date: 
NPR
link 2: 
Poetry Reading [4]
link 2, location and date: 
Massachusetts Poetry Festival

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Links
[1] mailto:lloyd.schwartz@umb.edu [2] http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/lloyd-schwartz [3] http://www.npr.org/2014/04/25/306535024/a-poetry-reading-to-my-oldest-friend-whose-silence-is-like-a-death [4] https://www.dropbox.com/s/sidezyei53kkch3/Lloyd.MOV