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Irving Feldman | |
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| Born | September 22, 1928 |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and Professor of English |
| Children | Fernando Feldman |
Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English.
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Irving Feldman | |
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| Born | September 22, 1928 |
| Occupation(s) | Poet and Professor of English |
| Children | Fernando Feldman |
Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English.
Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education. [1] After an undergraduate education at the City College of New York (B.A., 1950), Feldman completed his Master of Arts degree at Columbia University in 1953. [1] His first academic appointments were at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Lyon in France. Returning to the continental United States in 1958, he taught at Kenyon College until 1964, when he was appointed professor of English at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he was eventually appointed Distinguished Professor of English; he retired from teaching in 2004.
Irving Feldman has received a number of accolades for his poetry which include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Institute of Arts & Letters award, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, [2] Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts grant. [3] In 1992, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [4]
He received the 1962 National Jewish Book Award in the English Poetry category for Works and Days and Other Poems. [5]
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