Don Share

Don Share
Don Share in 2015
OccupationPoet, Editor, Translator
NationalityAmerican

Don Share is an American poet, editor, and translator. He was the editor of Poetry magazine from 2013 to 2020.[1] He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee.[2]

Career

Share was senior editor of Poetry magazine before being appointed editor, beginning July 1, 2013.[3] The Poetry Foundation announced on June 26, 2020, that he would step aside as editor effective at the end of summer 2020.[4][5]

From 2000 to 2007, he was curator of Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room.[6] He was poetry editor of Harvard Review, and edited issues 19 and 20.[7]

He has held editorial roles including editor-in-chief of Literary Imagination and poetry editor of Partisan Review until the magazine ceased publication in 2003.[3][8]

Share’s translations of Miguel Hernández, published as I Have Lots of Heart, won the Premio Valle Inclán (1999).[9]

Since leaving Poetry, he has been a visiting poet with the Georgia Institute of Technology's Poetry@Tech program.[10]

Works

Poetry

  • Union: Poems, Zoo Press, 2002, ISBN 9780970817778; Eyewear Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781908998101
  • Squandermania, Salt Publishing, 2007, ISBN 9781844712946
  • Wishbone, Black Sparrow Press, 2012, ISBN 9781574232196

Edited volumes

  • Don Share and Christian Wiman (eds.), The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of Poetry Magazine, University of Chicago Press, 2012, ISBN 9780226750705.[11]
  • Fred Sasaki and Don Share (eds.), Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from “Poetry” Magazine, University of Chicago Press, 2017, ISBN 9780226504766.[12]

References

  1. ^ "Don Share". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  2. ^ "Don Share". Harvard Magazine. September 2001. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  3. ^ a b "The Next Editor of Poetry Magazine Is.... Don Share!!". Poetry Foundation. 29 May 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  4. ^ "Announcement of Changes to POETRY Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Don Share to Step Aside at Poetry". Poets & Writers. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  6. ^ "Scholars Examine Harvard's Rich Poetic Tradition". The Harvard Crimson. 15 February 2007. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  7. ^ "Don Share". Harvard Review. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  8. ^ "Editorial Board". Literary Imagination (Oxford Academic). Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  9. ^ "Past winners (Spanish – Premio Valle Inclán)". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  10. ^ "Don Share". Georgia Institute of Technology. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  11. ^ "The Open Door: One Hundred Poems, One Hundred Years of "Poetry" Magazine". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 1 March 2026.
  12. ^ "Who Reads Poetry: 50 Views from "Poetry" Magazine". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 1 March 2026.