Lloyd Schwartz is an American

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 poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston

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. He is also Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix and a regular commentator for NPR

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's Fresh Air

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Biography

Lloyd Schwartz was born in Brooklyn

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, New York

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, graduated from Queens College, New York in 1962 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976.

Schwartz's books of poetry include Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press, 2000

2000 in poetry

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) and the chapbook Greatest Hits 1973-2000 (Pudding House Press, 2003) , which were preceded by Goodnight, Gracie (1992

1992 in poetry

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) and These People (1981

1981 in poetry

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). He edited the collection Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan Press, 1983). In 1990, he adapted These People for the Poets' Theatre in a production called These People: Voices for the Stage, which he also directed.

Schwartz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism

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 in 1994 for his work with The Boston Phoenix.

Schwartz served as co-editor of an edition of the collected works of Elizabeth Bishop

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 for the Library of America, entitled Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008).

His poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Agni, The Pushcart Prize, and The Best American Poetry. Between 1968 and 1982 he worked as an actor in the Harvard Dramatic Club, HARPO, The Pooh Players, Poly-Arts, and the NPR series The Spider's Web, playing such roles as Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), the Mock Turtle (Alice in Wonderland), Froth (Measure for Measure), Trofimov (The Cherry Orchard), Zeal-of-the-Land Busy (Bartholomew Fair), The Worm (In the Jungle of Cities), Krapp (Krapp's Last Tape), the Disciple John (Jesus: A Passion Play for Cambridge), and played a leading role in Russell Merritt's short satirical film The Drones Must Die. He also directed two operas, Ravel's L'Heure Espagnol (Boston Summer Opera Theatre) and Stravinsky's Mavra (New England Chamber Opera Group), 1972.