Karl Shapiro Poet

• Gender: Male
• Citizenship: United States
• Born: Nov 10, 1913
• Died: May 14, 2000

Karl Jay Shapiro (November 10, 1913, Baltimore, Maryland—May 14, 2000, New York City) was an American poet. He was appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

Karl Shapiro attended the University of Virginia before World War II, and immortalized it in a scathing poem called "University," which noted that "to hate the Negro and avoid the Jew is the curriculum." He did not return after his military service.