Up for auction "American Poet" David Ignatow Hand Signed 3X5 Card. 

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David

Ignatow (February 7, 1914

– November 17, 1997) was an American poet and editor. 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. 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.