[New-Poetry] Jason Shinder, 52, Poet and Founder of Arts Program

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/arts/03shinder.html?ref=arts

By MARGALIT FOX
Published: May 3, 2008

Jason Shinder, a poet, anthologist and teacher who founded the Y.M.C.A. National Writer’s Voice program, one of the country’s largest networks of literary-arts centers, died on April 25 at his home in Manhattan. He was 52 and also lived in Provincetown, Mass.


His death was announced by the Academy of American Poets, which said that Mr. Shinder had been ill with lymphoma and leukemia for several years.

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