Lloyd Schwartz

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Lloyd Schwartz (born November 29, 1941) is an American poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is also Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air.

Lloyd Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Queens College, New York in 1962 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976. Schwartz's most recent book of poetry is Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press, 2000), which was preceded by Goodnight, Gracie (1992) and These People (1981). He edited the collection Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan Press, 1983). Schwartz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1994.

Most recently, Schwartz served as co-editor of an edition of the collected works of Elizabeth Bishop for the Library of America, entitled Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008).