Career
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Baltimore News American, Baltimore, MD, reporter, 1959-60; WFBR Radio, Baltimore, feature writer, 1961-62; Maryland State Commission on the Aging, consultant, 1962-63; Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, instructor in English, 1964-69; Goucher College, Towson, MD, instructor, 1971-73, assistant professor, 1977-78, lecturer in English, 1978-82; American Poetry Review, Philadelphia, PA, editor, 1975-77; Temple University, Philadelphia, associate professor in Tokyo, Japan, 1984-86; University of Iowa, Iowa City, poet-in-residence, fall, 1987; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, poet-in-residence, spring, 1987, 1990, 2000; MFA Program for Writers, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, NC, faculty, 1989—; University of Hawaii, visiting writer, 1993; University of Utah, visiting professor, spring, 1999; Smith College, Northampton, MA, Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in- Residence, 2000-01; Northwestern University, writer-in-residence, fall, 1997, 2002.
