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Name
  
David Ignatow


Role
  
Poet

David Ignatow httpswwwpoetsorgsitesdefaultfilesstyles2

Died
  
November 17, 1997, East Hampton

Awards
  
Bollingen Prize, Robert Frost Medal, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

Books
  
Against the evidence, Leaving the door open, The gentle weight lifter, Say pardon, I Have a Name

Similar People
  
Stanley Kunitz, Karl Shapiro, George II of Great Britain

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David Ignatow (February 7, 1914 – November 17, 1997) was an American poet.

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David Ignatow httpswwwpoetsorgsitesdefaultfilesstyles2

For my daughter a poem by david ignatow


Life

David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. He died on November 17, 1997, at his home in East Hampton, New York. His papers are held at University of California, San Diego.

Ignatow began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of American Poetry Review, Analytic, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Chelsea Magazine, and as poetry editor of The Nation.

He taught at the New School for Social Research, the University of Kentucky, the University of Kansas, Vassar College, York College, City University of New York, New York University, and Columbia University. He was president of the Poetry Society of America from 1980 to 1984 and poet-in-residence at the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in 1987.

Awards

Ignatow's many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award "for a lifetime of creative effort." He received the Shelley Memorial Award (1966), the Frost Medal (1992), and the William Carlos Williams Award (1997) of the Poetry Society of America.

References

David Ignatow Wikipedia


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