Lynne Shapiro's formally accomplished but playfully experimental poems have been published in more than 200 journals and magazines. Based in Hoboken, New Jersey, she has held arts residencies in a number of countries including Morocco, Lithuania, Spain, and the UK. Earlier in her career as a specialist in Dada and Surrealism, and interdisciplinary arts movements from between the Wars, she worked and taught at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New School, and the Parsons School of Design. Once an assistant to Susan Sontag, her time spent working at the Whitney Museum in the 1980s is the starting point for this suite of poems about muses, museums and the bad boys of the art world.
