1. William Craig Berkson was an American poet, critic, and teacher who was active in the art and literary worlds from his early twenties on.
10 Facts About Bill Berkson
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Bill Berkson attended The Day School of the Church of the Heavenly Rest and transferred to Trinity School in 1945.
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Bill Berkson dropped out of Brown University to return to New York after his father died.
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Bill Berkson studied poetry at The New School for Social Research with Kenneth Koch.
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Bill Berkson attended Columbia University and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
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In 1975, he married the artist Lynn O'Hare; their son Moses Edwin Clay Bill Berkson was born in Bolinas, California, on January 23,1976.
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Bill Berkson's poems have appeared in many magazines and anthologies and have been translated into French, Russian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czechoslovakian, Romanian, Italian, German and Spanish.
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Bill Berkson retired from SFAI in 2008 and later held the position of Professor Emeritus.
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Bill Berkson continued until the end of his life to lecture widely in colleges and universities.
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Bill Berkson died of a heart attack in San Francisco on June 16,2016, at the age of 76.