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Lloyd Schwartz
Portrait of Lloyd Schwartz

Lloyd Schwartz’s latest book is Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems (University of Chicago Press, 2021). For his poetry he has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and his poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Poetry, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. A noted editor of the works of Elizabeth Bishop, he is also the longtime classical music critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and was the classical music editor of The Boston Phoenix, for which he was awarded the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He is the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the poet laureate of Somerville, Massachusetts, for which he has been awarded a 2021 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. (updated 8/2021)

AGNI has published the following work:

Poetry
Cairo Traffic
AGNI 43 Print Only
Essays
A Tribute to Gail Mazur: Introduction
AGNI 78 Print Only
Essays
In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009
AGNI 70 Print Only
Poetry
Three Dreams: Masquerade, The Book of Paintings, My Nightmare
AGNI 38 Print Only
Poetry
Crossing the Rockies
AGNI 29 and 30 Print Only

AGNI has published the following translations:

Poetry
Music for My Ashes
by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna
Translated from the Portuguese by Lloyd Schwartz
AGNI 55 Print Only
Poetry
The Gifted
by Rogério Zola Santiago
Translated from the Portuguese by Lloyd Schwartz
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