Portrait of Lloyd Schwartz

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:

In Memoriam Michael Mazur, 1935–2009

Essay by Lloyd Schwartz

Cairo Traffic

Poetry by Lloyd Schwartz

Three Dreams: Masquerade, The Book of Paintings, My Nightmare

Poetry by Lloyd Schwartz

Crossing the Rockies

Poetry by Lloyd Schwartz

AGNI has published the following translations:

Music for My Ashes

Poetry by Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna Translated from the Portuguese by Lloyd Schwartz

The Gifted

Poetry by Rogério Zola Santiago Translated from the Portuguese by Lloyd Schwartz
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