[Yale-readings] Irving Feldman Reading October 25th at 5pm

[Nancy Kuhl]

The poet Irving Feldman will be reading on Monday, October 25th at 5pm
in Saint Anthony Hall, located on the corner of Wall and College Streets.
Irving Feldman was born on September 22, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. He
was educated at the City College of New York and at Columbia University.
After receiving his master's degree from Columbia in 1953, Feldman
traveled first to Puerto Rico, where he taught at the University of
Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, and then to France, where he taught at the
Université de Lyon. In 1958, he returned to the United States to accept
a position at Kenyon College, moving on in 1964 to the State University
of New York at Buffalo, where he is currently Distinguished Professor of
English.

Feldman's collections of poetry include Beautiful False Things: Poems
(Grove Press, 2000); All of Us Here (1986), a finalist for the National
Book Critics Circle Award; Leaping Clear (1976) and The Pripet Marshes
(1965), both finalists for the National Book Award; and Works and Days
(1961), which won the Jewish Book Council’s Kovner Poetry Prize. The
Life and Letters (1994) was a finalist for the Poets' Prize. Feldman is
the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters award as well
as fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, The Guggenheim
Foundation, The Ingram Merrill Foundation, and The MacArthur Foundation.
He lives in Buffalo, New York.

Please contact alexander.nemser at yale.edu for more information.



Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047