Matthew J. Zapruder

Matthew J. Zapruder (born 1967 Washington, D.C.) is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from Amherst College, with a BA in Russian Literature, from the University of California, Berkeley with an MA in Slavic Languages, and from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with an MFA in Poetry. He taught at New York University, The New School, the University of Houston, St. Mary's College of California, and University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

He is an editor for Wave Books, and teaches at University of California Riverside.^[2]

In 2011, he was a Guggenheim Fellow.^[3] He had a Lannan Foundation Residency in Marfa, Texas. He won the May Sarton prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He will appear at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.^[4]

He lives in San Francisco.

Works

• "Poem for John McCain", Boston Review, MARCH/APRIL 2009

• American Linden: poems, Tupelo Press, 2003, ISBN 9780971031098
• The Pajamaist, Copper Canyon Press, 2006, ISBN 9781556592447
• Come On All You Ghosts, Copper Canyon Press, 2010, ISBN 9781556593222

Translations

• Secret Weapon: Selected Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, with Radu Ioanid, Coffee House Press, 2007

Anthologies

• Legitimate dangers: American poets of the new century , Editors Michael Dumanis, Cate Marvin, Sarabande Books, 2006, ISBN 9781932511291

References

1. ^ http://english.berkeley.edu/contact/person_detail.php?person=217
2. ^ http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/25299
3. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17037-matthew-j-zapruder
4. ^ "Jacket Copy". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2011/04/2011-guggenheim-fellows.html. 

External links

• "Matthew Zapruder", Poetry Foundation

Reviews

• David Orr (April 22, 2011). "How Poets Achieve Their Styles". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/books/review/on-poetry-matthew-zapruder-and-rachel-wetzsteon.html?_r=1. 
• "Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder", Bookslut, February 2011

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