Career
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Poet. Wilson Library Bulletin, New York City, editor, 1928-43; Bennington College, Bennington, VT, English faculty, 1946-49; Potsdam State Teachers College (now State University of New York College at Potsdam), Potsdam, NY, professor of English, 1949-50; New School for Social Research (now New School University), New York City, lecturer in English, 1950-57; Poetry Center, Young Men's Hebrew Association (YMHA), New York City, with poetry workshop, 1958-62; Columbia University, New York City, lecturer, 1963-66, adjunct professor of writing in School of the Arts, 1967-85. Member of staff of writing division, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, beginning 1968. Fellow, Yale University, beginning 1969; visiting senior fellow, Council of the Humanities, and Old Dominion Fellow in creative writing, Princeton University, 1978-79. Director of seminar, Potsdam Summer Workshop in Creative Arts, 1949-53; poet-in-residence, University of Washington, 1955-56, Queens College (now Queens College of the City University of New York), 1956-57, Brandeis University, 1958-59, and Princeton University, 1979. Danforth Visiting Lecturer at colleges and universities in the United States, 1961-63; visiting professor, Yale University, 1972, and Rutgers University, 1974. Lectured and gave poetry readings under cultural exchange program in USSR and Poland, 1967, in Senegal and Ghana, 1976, and in Israel and Egypt, 1980. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, consultant on poetry, 1974-76, honorary consultant in American letters, 1976-83. Military service: U.S. Army, Air Transport Command, 1943-45; became staff sergeant.
