About Irving Feldman
Born 1928. Irving Feldman is an American poet.
Irving Feldman (born September 22, 1928) is an American poet and professor of English.
Academic career Born and raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, Feldman worked as a merchant seaman, farm hand, and factory worker through his university education. 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. Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts grant. In 1992, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
He received the 1962 National Jewish Book Award in the English Poetry category for Works and Days and Other Poems. In 1994, Harold Bloom included New and Selected Poems in his list of books constituting the Western Canon.
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American poet, professor
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Irving Feldman was born on 22 September 1928 in Coney Island.
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Irving Feldman is a poet.
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