Jason Shinder’s death, at age 52, was announced by the Academy of American Poets, which reported that Mr. Shinder had fought lymphoma and leukemia for several years. He died on April 25, 2008 at his home in Manhattan. Shinder was a poet and teacher who organized the Y.M.C.A. National Writer’s Voice program, among the nation’s foremost networks of literary-arts centers. He was also a former assistant to the renowned poet Allen Ginsberg. Mr. Shinder founded the original Writer’s Voice in 1981, at Manhattan’s West Side Y.M.C.A.. According to Margalit Fox of the New York Times, this first Writer’s Voice offered high-level teaching and readings in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and dramatic writing at cost vastly reduced from a graduate writing program. Mr. Shinder was the author of two volumes of poetry, Every Room We Ever Slept In and Among Women. He edited many anthologies, among them The Poem That Changed America: “Howl” Fifty Years Later.