Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1930, May 9 | Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| 1952 | Married Sonia Berer (died 2014) |
| 1957 | Bachelor of Arts, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N.Y. Post graduate, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1957-1958 | Teaching assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. |
| 1958-1963 | Assistant instructor, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio |
| 1961 | Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury, Vt. |
| 1962 | Master of Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. |
| 1963 | Published A Road Came Once. Columbus: Ohio State University Press |
| 1963-1965 | Lecturer, English Department, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, N.Y. |
| 1965-1974 | Associate professor, English Department, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y. |
| 1965-1992 | Yaddo fellowships, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (1965-1976, 1990, 1992) |
| 1966, 1979 | MacDowell Foundation Fellowships, Petersboro, N.H. |
| 1967 | Visiting poet in the Negro Colleges of Mississippi, National Foundation for the Arts and Woodrow Wilson Foundation awardee Published Called Home: A Sequence of Poems, 1964-66 with etchings by Robert E. Marx. Vestal, N.Y.: The Black Bird Press |
| 1970 | Published Woodlawn North: A Book of Poems with etchings by Robert E. Marx. [Boston]: Impressions Workshop |
| 1971-1972 | Visiting professor, Universiṭat ha-Negev, Beersheba, Israel |
| 1972-1981 | Co-editor with John Logan, Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Graphics |
| 1973 | Published Sailing Too Far: Poems. New York, Harper & Row Translator with Gerald E. Kadish. Love Songs and Tomb Songs of Ancient Egypt for Pale Is This Good Prince, an oratorio by Karl Korte |
| 1973, 1981 | Visiting lecturer, Universiṭat Ḥefah, Ḥefah, Israel |
| 1973-1985 | Director, creative writing program, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y. (1973-1975, 1978-1979, 1985) |
| 1974-1999 | Professor emeritus, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y. |
| 1975 | Visiting professor, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| 1977-1978 | Guest poet, Antioch International Summer Writing Seminars, Oxford, England |
| 1978 | International fellow, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1979 | Norma Millay Foundation Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, N.Y. |
| 1982-1999 | Fellow, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, Va. (1982-1983, 1988-1990, 1995, 1999) |
| 1985 | Visiting professor, Antwerp University, Antwerpen, Belgium |
| 1990 | Published The Grand Concourse: Poems. Binghamton, N.Y.: MSS, State University of New York at Binghamton |
| 1992 | Filmmaker with Paula Kessler. Walt Whitman: The Centennial. [Glendale, Calif.]: Streetlight Productions |
| 1994 | "Thanks Forever" selected to appear in London underground transit and in Poems on the Underground, London: Cassell ; New York: Distributed in the United States by Sterling Publishing Co. |
| 1995 | Published Riding First Car: Learning the Boxes. Rochester, N.Y.: Black Bird Press |
| 2000, April 17 | Died, Binghamton, N.Y. |
| 2002 | Published (posthumously) Free Concert: New and Selected Poems. Silver Spring, Md : Etruscan Press. |