Education

Columbia University, MFA 1974
New School for Social Research, BA 1971

Employment

New York University, Adjunct Professor of English, 1984 - present
Editor in chief of Pequod 1976-present
Guest Editor of TriQuarterly, 1999, Classics and Contemporaries
Editor of the poetry section of Books I Love the Most, Milkweed, 1997 (ed. Michael 
   Dorris)
Poetry Critic, Amazon.com, London Review of Books
Rutgers University at Camden, Poet in Residence, Fall 1997
Columbia University, School of the Arts, Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing and          
   Literature, 1992-1996
Columbia School of General Studies, Adjunct Professor, 1988 - 1992
York College, Poet in Residence, 1984-1987

Awards and Fellowships

Realm of Unknowing, Notable Twentieth Ceutury 20th Century American Non-Fiction in Best American Essays of the Century, Houghton Mifflin 2000, ed. Joyce Carol Oates
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts, 1995
Poet in Residence, Walt Whitman Birthplace, 1998
The Millennium Hotel chosen as one of the best 25 books of the year, VLS, 1996
Participant in “Is in the book Dying?” Conference, Aspen Institute, Summer 1995
National Book Critics Circle Award for Rider, 1994
New York Foundation for the Arts Award, 1988
Board of Governors, Poetry Society of America 1985-1989
Denver Quarterly Award for “The Bus to the Ruins,” 1987
Max Hayward Award for Pasternak’s My Sister-Life, P.E.N./Columbia University   
   Translation Center, 1983
Ingram Merrill Fellowship, 1983
Editor’s Award, Coordinating Council for Literary Magazines, 1982
P.E.N. Translation Center Fellowship, 1977

Readings, residencies, visiting poet: American Academy in Rome, Yaddo, Ragdale, SUNY Buffalo, Folger Library, Georgetown, University of Hawaii, Stanford, University of Utah, Academy of American Poets, 92nd St Y, University of Virginia, University of Pennsylvania, Poetry Society of America, Nordic Poetry Festival

“The Albuquerque Interventions,” a radio play, Martha Plimpton in lead role, drunkenboat.com, 2006, Dialogue with Jerry Carlson on Pasolini’s Hawks and Sparrows, CUNY Cinema, 1996

Publications

Poetry

The Motel En Route To Life Out There: Selections from the Rider Quintet (forthcoming in fall 2008), SALT (UK, AUSTRALIA)
Sundays on the Phone, Wesleyan University Press, 2005
The Couple, Wesleyan University Press, 2002
Provoked in Venice, Wesleyan University Press, 1999
The Millennium Hotel, Wesleyan University Press, 1996
Rider, Wesleyan University Press, 1994
The Nowhere Steps, Sheep Meadow Press, 1990
By Contraries, The National Poetry Foundation, 1987

Prose

The Book of Samuel: Essays on Poetry and Imagination (forthcoming in fall 2008), Northwestern University Press
Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations, Wesleyan, 1995
Diverse Voices: Essays on Poets and Poetry, Story Line Press, 1993
Robert Lowell: An Introduction to the Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1983

Translations

My Sister–Life and The Highest Sickness, poems by Boris Pasternak (with Bohdan Boychuk),
   Ardis 1983, revised edition Northwestern University Press, 1992, 2002
Square of Angels: The Selected Poems of Bohdan Antonych (with Boychuk), Ardis, 1976
Memories of Love: The Selected Poems of Bohdan Boychuk, Sheep Meadow Press, 1989
Daughters of Troy, (with Katharine Washburn), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

Poetry and prose in journals and anthologies

Poetry:  Agni, The American Poetry Review, Arion, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Poetry, Denver Quarterly, First Light (Harcourt Brace), Grand Street, Harper’s, Literature: The Evolving Cannon, Kenyon Review, The London Review, The New Directions Annual, The New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Raritan, Telling and Remembering (Beacon Press) TriQuarterly, Times Literary Supplement, The Yale Review

Prose:  The American Poetry Review, Arion, London Review of Books, The Nation, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Raritan, Threepenny Review, Times Literary Supplement

Recent contributions including reviews

“On Zbigniew Herbert’s Collected Poems,” Bookforum, Spring 2007, “The Book of Samuel,” NER, Summer 2007, “Who Is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You,” (long poem), NER, Winter 2008, “The Token Token,” Per Contra, “On the Road, Touch and Go, with D.H. Lawrence,” The American Poetry Review, 2005, “A Garland for Nicanor Parra,” New England Review, 2005,  “Classical Muses: on Anne Carson,” Book Forum, 2005, “Reading T.S.Eliot at My Cousin’s Farm in the Gatineau,” The American Poetry Review, 2004, “Private But No Less Ghostly Worlds,” On James Tate, ed. Brian Henry , University of Michigan Press, 2004, “The Albuquerque Interventions,” SALT, ed. John Kinsella, 2002, “Introduction to Cesare Pavese’s The Moon and the Bonfire,” New York Review of Books Classics, 2002, “Mosaic on Walking,” Best American Essays, ed. Joyce Carol Oates, “Golly: On Jean Arthur,” Ok, You Mugs, ed. Luc Sante, Pantheon, 1999, “Blue Note,” an introduction to Malcolm Lowry’s Ultramarine, Penguin UK 1999, “M,” (on Osip Mandelstam) Martyrs, ed. Susan Bergman, Harper/Collins, 1997, “Realm of Unknowing” in Cahiers du Cinema’s International Writers on Film, translated and ed. Antoine de Bacque, 1995