A reading by poet Alan Shapiro
followed by a book signing and wine and cheese reception
Award-winning poet and memoirist Alan Shapiro writes on themes of family, loss, domesticity and daily life in free verse and traditional poetic forms. Shapiro has won the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, and a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. Invited to the White House during Bill Clinton’s presidency, he read “On Men Weeping,” a poem about Michael Jordan winning a basketball championship. He has taught at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
