{{Short description|American poet and editor (1914–1977)}} {{for|the Yiddish novelist|David Ignatoff}}

{{Infobox writer | name = David Ignatow | image = David Ignatow 1973.jpg | caption = From the 1973 York College/CUNY Yearbook | birth_date = {{Birth date|1914|02|07}} | birth_place = New York City, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date|1997|11|17}} (age 83 years) | death_place = East Hampton, New York, U.S. | occupation = Poet | education = | genre =Poetry }}

'''David Ignatow''' (February 7, 1914 &ndash; November 17, 1997) was an American poet and editor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/david-ignatow|title = David Ignatow biography|date = September 6, 2021}}</ref>

==Life== David Ignatow was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 7, 1914, and spent most of his life in the New York City area. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary and Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ignatow (David) Papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2b69n86k/ |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref> He died on November 17, 1997, aged 83, at his home in East Hampton, New York. His papers are held at University of California, San Diego.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf2b69n86k/|title = Ignatow (David) Papers}}</ref>

Ignatow began his professional career as a businessman. After committing wholly to poetry, Ignatow worked as an editor of, among other periodicals, the ''American Poetry Review'' and the ''Beloit Poetry Journal'', 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 (CUNY), New York University, and Columbia University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.webdelsol.com/ignatow/|title=David Ignatow, Poet}}</ref> 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.

==Awards== 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/777|title = About David Ignatow &#124; Academy of American Poets}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

*''Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems'' (BOA Editions, 1999) *''At My Ease: Uncollected Poems of the Fifties and Sixties'' (1998) *''I Have a Name'' (1996) *''The End Game and Other Stories'' (1996) *''Against the Evidence: Selected Poems, 1934–1994'' (1994) *''Despite the Plainness of the Day: Love Poems'' (1991) *''Shadowing the Ground'' (1991) *''If We Knew'' (Polymorph Editions, 1991) *''New and Collected Poems, 1970–1985'' (1986) *''Leaving the Door Open'' (1984) *''Whisper to the Earth'' (1981) *''Conversations'' (1980) *''Sunlight'' (1979) *''Tread the Dark'' (1978) *''Selected Poems'' (1975) *''Facing the Tree'' (1975) *''Poems: 1934–1969'' (1970) *''Rescue the Dead'' (1968) *''Earth Hard: Selected Poems'' (1968) *''Figures of the Human'' (1964) *''Say Pardon'' (1962) *''The Gentle Weightlifter'' (1955) *''Poems'' (Decker Press, 1948)

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==External links== *[http://www.webdelsol.com/ignatow/ Links to Ignatow's work] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20051018155333/http://www.poetrysociety.org/journal/articles/tributes/ignatow.html A tribute] by Harvey Shapiro *{{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3378/the-art-of-poetry-no-23-david-ignatow| journal=The Paris Review| title=David Ignatow, The Art of Poetry No. 23| date=| author=Gerard Malanga | volume=Fall 1979| issue=76}} *[http://www.york.cuny.edu/library/about-the-library/resolveuid/f9ce8f850bb1fe8dd228788981fd515c ''On David Ignatow's Portrait''], by Alan Cooper, in the Spring 2010 York College Library newsletter, p. 7. *[http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0002.html David Ignatow Papers] MSS 2. [http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/ Special Collections & Archives], UC San Diego Library. *[https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zgqj David Ignatow collection] * [https://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/finding-aids/D324 Ignatow Graubart Papers], Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

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