I haven’t felt much like listening to music, and it’s not because I don’t love music any more…
Lloyd Schwartz’s poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best American Poetry, and The Best of the Best American Poetry. He is also a noted Elizabeth Bishop scholar, co-editor of the Library of American’s Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, & Letters, and editor of the centennial edition of Bishop’s prose. In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his columns on music in The Boston Phoenix. Since 1987, he has been the classical music critic for NPR’s Fresh Air. Recently retired, he was the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.