Alan Shapiro’s writing has received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Tantalus in Love (2005) and Old War (2008), both from Houghton Mifflin, are the most recent of his ten books of poetry. He teaches at the University of North Carolina. His poetry appears in Smartish Pace, Issue 16 (2009).
