Showing posts with label Marian Kaplun Shapiro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marian Kaplun Shapiro. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2019

Two Pieces by Marian Kaplun Shapiro

Equation: A Conversation

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*Editor's note: 'Equation: a Conversation' will appear in the forthcoming Maximum Tilt anthology.


Marian Kaplun Shapiro is the author of a professional book, Second Childhood (Norton, 1988),  a poetry book, Players In The Dream, Dreamers In The Play (Plain View Press, 2007) and  two chapbooks: Your Third Wish, (Finishing Line, 2007); and The End Of The World, Announced On Wednesday (Pudding House, 2007). A Quaker and a psychologist, her poetry often embeds the  topics of peace and violence by addressing one within the context of the other. A resident of Lexington, she is a five-time Senior Poet Laureate of Massachusetts. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2012.