published poet and translator, as well as the founder and Editor in Chief of
the acclaimed poetry publishing house Verse Press (now Wave Books). His
first book of poetry, American Linden, was the winner of the Tupelo Press
Editors' Prize, and came out in 2002. His second collection, The Pajamaist,
was released by Copper Canyon in 2006. His book of translations from the
Romanian, Secret Weapon: The Late Poems of Eugen Jebeleanu, will be
published by Coffee House in 2007.
Zapruder teaches creative writing in the MFA Writing Program at the New
School in New York City, where he is the co-curator of the KGB Monday
Night Poetry Reading Series. He also teaches as a member of the permanent
faculty of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst. In May/June of 2007 he was a Lannan Literary
Fellow in Marfa, TX.
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