Harvey Shapiro, American poet (died 2013)

Harvey Shapiro (poet)

American poet and newspaper editor (1924–2013)

Harvey Shapiro was an American poet and editor of The New York Times. He wrote a dozen books of poetry from 1953 to 2006, writing in epigrammatic style about things in his everyday life. As an editor, he was always affiliated with The New York Times in some capacity, mainly in…