76: David Shapiro's contemporary poets are Keats and Stevens. Listen to this episode to learn how this prodigy of the violin and poetry showed his teenage work to Frank O'Hara or to hear what he means by "Proust on the side of the starless chaos of the social, and Kafka on the starless eyes of the interior." His latest collection of poetry is titled, "New & Selected Poems (1965-2006)."

In this episode, he plays his bat mitzvah violin piece and reads "Falling Upwards."