Don Share

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Don Share is a poet, editor, and teacher.

Share has been Curator of the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University since 2000. He is Editor in Chief of Literary Imagination, the review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (published by Oxford University Press); Poetry Editor of Harvard Review, a contributing editor for Salamander,and on the advisory board of Tuesday; An Art Project. He was Poetry Editor for Partisan Review until it ceased publication in 2003.

He teaches at Harvard University, is on the core faculty of the Lesley University low-residency MFA program, and has taught and lectured at other institutions including Boston University and Oxford University.

Squandermania, is Share's second full collection of original poetry (Salt Publishing, 2007). His first book, Union, (Zoo Press, 2002), was a finalist for the Boston Globe/ PEN New England Winship Award for outstanding book. His other books include: Seneca in English (Penguin Classics) and I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books, 1997) a selected collection of Miguel Hernåndez, which received the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclån Prize for Translation from the Society of Authors. His critical edition of the poems of Basil Bunting is forthcoming from Faber and Faber.

Share received his A.B. from Brown University, M.S.L.I.S. from Simmons College, M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University. He also attended Columbia University. He grew up in Memphis.

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