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Portrait and Dream: New and Selected Poems
Author Biography
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Moses Berkson |
Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher, and occasional editor, publisher, and curator, who entered the worlds of art and literature in his late teens. He was born in New York in 1939 and attended Trinity and Lawrenceville schools and Brown University, The New School for Social Research, Columbia, and New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Berkson has published many books and pamphlets of poetry, as well as volumes of criticism and selected lectures. From 1971 to 1978 he edited and published a series of books and magazines under the imprint Big Sky. He is corresponding editor for Art in America and has been given numerous awards and grants for poetry and criticism, including those from the Poets Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1990 he received the Artspace Award for Art Criticism, in 2006 he was the Distinguished Paul Mellon Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and in 2008, received the GOLDIE award for Literature from the San Francisco Bay Guardian. From 1984 to 2008 he taught and organized the public lectures series at the San Francisco Art Institute. He now lives in San Francisco and New York. |
