Career
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Distinguished Professor of English at Lehman College and founding advisory board member for CUNY Institute for Irish-American studies; writer-in-residence at Sarah Lawrence College; served as Literary Lion of the New York Public Library; US Poet Laureate, 2001-2003; New York State Poet Laureate from 2004-2006; has also taught at Columbia University; Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute in Florida; faculty member at the State University of New York-Stonybrook Southampton; appears regularly on National Public Radio and was guest host for “The Writer’s Almanac,” June-August 2013.
