Creator Bio
Ira Sadoff
b. 1945
Ira Sadoff, born in Brooklyn, New York, is a poet, short story writer, and novelist whose works explore historical and cultural influences. The Dana Professor of Poetry at Colby College, he has published volumes of poetry, a novel, and a reader containing both poetry and prose. Sadoff, a 1999 Guggenheim Fellow, received the 1976 O. Henry Award, the 1996 George Bogin Memorial Prize, and the 1998 Jerome Shestack Prize.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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My Father’s Leaving
When I came back, he was gone.
My mother was in the bathroom
crying, my sister in her crib
restless but asleep. The sun
was shining in the bay window,
the grass had just been cut.
No one mentioned…