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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

Poetry, Creative Writing, Classical Music, Films, Elizabeth Bishop

Degrees

PhD, Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
BA, Queen’s College, New York

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Elizabeth Bishop: Prose (editor, Centennial Edition), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
• Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (Library of America, 2008)
• Cairo Traffic (U. of Chicago Press, 2000)
• Goodnight Gracie (U. of Chicago Press, 1992)
• Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (U. of Michigan Press, 1983)
• These People (Wesleyan U.P., 1981)

Additional Information

Lloyd Schwartz was awarded the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. He has published three volumes of poetry: These People; Goodnight, Gracie; and Cairo Traffic--and a chapbook: Lloyd Schwartz: Greatest Hits 1973-2000. His poems, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, Paris Review, The Pushcart Prize, and Best American Poetry. As a critic and editor, he is an internationally recognized authority on Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry and prose. The edition of her collected work he prepared for the Library of America was published in March 2008. His new edition of her Prose was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on February 8, 2011, to celebrate the centennial of Bishop's birth. He is currently classical music editor of the Boston Phoenix and since 1987 he has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s Fresh Air. Read samples of Lloyd Schwartz's work at Poets.org: "A True Poem", "Leaves", and "Six Words".

Articles and Reviews

The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Parnassus, Salmagundi, Yale Review,The Boston Phoenix, Boston Magazine, Symphony, Sonus, Bostonia, Architecture Boston, Ararat; Prime Times: Writers on Their Favorite TV Shows, Poet’s Bookshelf II: Contemporary Poets on Books That Shaped Their Art, also, commentator on music and the arts for Fresh Air (National Public Radio) and Classical Music Editor of the Boston Phoenix (Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, 1994)

Poetry

The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Boulevard, Agni, Slate, Harvard Review; anthologized in The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, Essential Pleasures: Poems to Read Aloud (Norton, forthcoming 2009), The Handbook of Heartbreak; Too Darn Hot: Writing About Sex Since Kinsey; Poems to Read (Norton)