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

[amy king]

Whoa.  I had no idea he was sick.  I met him many years ago at -- believe it or not -- a party in George Plimpton's famous upper-East side apartment in Manhattan, and he was always friendly and inviting wherever I saw him after.  So young!

Amy

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


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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