Alan Shapiro

Alan Shapiro is the author of eight books of poetry including Tantalus in Love (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). He has received the Kingsley Tufts Award and the Los Angeles Times prize for poetry, among other honors. His collection of essays, The Last Happy Occasion (Chicago, 1996), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Published in VQR

• Family Man, Winter 2007
• Poet, Winter 2007
• Dentist, Winter 2007
• Country Western Singer, Winter 2007
• My Tears See More Than My Eyes: My Son’s Depression and the Power of Art, Fall 2006
• Super Bowl Party, Fall 2004
• Questions for the Soul, Winter 2004
• The Conversation, Winter 2004