" After the war, Mr. Ciardi returned briefly to Kansas State, before being named instructor 1946, and later assistant professor, in the Briggs Copeland chair at Harvard University, where he stayed until 1953.

Ciardi was born at home in Boston's Little Italy.

" " Ciardi began his higher studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, but transferred to Tufts University in Boston, where he studied under the poet John Holmes.

After the war, Ciardi returned to UKC for the spring semester 1946, where he met and married Myra Judith Hostetter on July 28 ( who at the time was a journalist and journalism instructor ).

" " While at Harvard, Mr. Ciardi began his long association with the Bread Loaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he lectured on poetry for almost 30 years, half that time as director of the program.

Ciardi had begun translating Dante for his classes at Harvard and continued with the work throughout his time there.

In 1953, Ciardi joined the English Department at Rutgers University in order to begin a writing program, but after eight successful years there, he resigned his professorship in 1961 in favor of several other more lucrative careers, especially fall and spring tours on the college lecture circuit, and to " devote himself fulltime to literary pursuits.

" " During his years at Bread Loaf and at the Saturday Review, Ciardi established a reputation as a tough, sometimes harsh, critic.

Ciardi had published his first book of poems, Homeward to America, in 1940, before the war, and his next book, Other Skies, focusing on his wartime experiences, was published in 1947.

Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.

In 1959, Ciardi published a book on how to read, write, and teach poetry, How Does a Poem Mean ?, which has proven to be among the most-used books of its kind.

At the peak of his popularity in the early 1960s, Ciardi also had a network television program on CBS, Accent.

Two years later, Ciardi would have his work featured again on an album titled, As If: Poems, New and Selected, by John Ciardi.

" In similar circumstances, Ciardi " described Robert Frost's ‘ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ’ as expressing the death wish of its speaker ".

Ciardi was unceremoniously fired from Bread Loaf in 1972, after serving seventeen years as director, and not having missed a single year on the poetry staff since 1947.

* Ciardi Discography on Folkways

Noted authors who have been associated with the conference over the years include James Brown, John Ciardi, Bernard DeVoto, Robert Frost, John Gardner, Richard Gehman, Donald Hall, John Irving, Shirley Jackson, Barry Lopez, Robie Macauley, Carson McCullers, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Linda Pastan, May Sarton, Anne Sexton, Eudora Welty, and Richard Yates.

" " Ciardi defended his stand, noting that it was the reviewer's duty to damn when warranted.

" Famous Hopwood award winners include Robert Hayden, Marge Piercy, Arthur Miller, Betty Smith, Lawrence Kasdan, John Ciardi, Mary Gaitskill, Nancy Willard, Frank O ’ Hara, and Steve Hamilton.

Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

In 2002 another version of O was released, called The Story of O: Untold Pleasures, with Danielle Ciardi playing the title character.

Writers John Ciardi, James Merrill, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Richard Wilbur reputedly played together regularly in Key West, Florida, with novelist John Hersey also sometimes sitting in.

" When Patchen recorded his jazz-poetry readings, one of the resulting albums drew praise from the poet John Ciardi who wrote that " Patchen's poetry is in many ways a natural for jazz accompaniment.

In the early 1950s, Gorey, with a group of recent Harvard alumni including Alison Lurie ( 1947 ), John Ashbery ( 1949 ), and Donald Hall ( 1951 ), Frank O ' Hara, amongst others, founded the Poets ' Theatre in Cambridge, which was supported by Harvard faculty members John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder.

He also illustrated more than 50 works by other authors, including Samuel Beckett, Edward Lear, John Bellairs, H. G. Wells, Alain-Fournier, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Florence Parry Heide, John Updike, John Ciardi and Felicia Lamport.

Some of the authors who have written about the Italian American experience are Pietro Di Donato ; Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; Dana Gioia, Executive Director of the National Endowment for the Arts ; John Fusco, author of Paradise Salvage ; and Daniela Gioseffi, winner of the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry and The American Book Award.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Daniela Gioseffi and Paul Mariani, are among the widely and internationally published authors who have been awarded The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry by Italian Americana during Michael Palma's tenure as Poetry Editor.

* John Ciardi ( 1916 – 1986 ), poet.

* June 13-Cesare Ciardi, flautist and composer ( b. 1818 )

Among his contemporaries who also appeared in that book were Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Randall Jarrell, and John Ciardi, all poets who came into prominence in the 1940s.

John Anthony Ciardi ( ; ) ( June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986 ) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.

In 1921, two years after his father was killed in an automobile accident, the family moved to Medford, Massachusetts, where the young Ciardi peddled vegetables to the neighbors and attended public schools.

John Ciardi was a longtime resident of Metuchen, New Jersey.

Blair was briefly taught French by Aldous Huxley.

" He was also heavily influenced by an African-American dancer Dancing Dotson, whom he saw at Loew's Penn Theatre around 1929, and was briefly taught by Frank Harrington, an African-American tap specialist from New York.

After law school, Ashcroft briefly taught Business Law and worked as an administrator at Southwest Missouri State University.

He resigned from Columbia and Fermilab in 1989 and taught briefly at the University of Chicago before moving to Illinois Institute of Technology, where he currently serves as the Pritzker Professor of Science.

He briefly taught school in Glastonbury, found the working conditions to be harsh and the pay low, then left to study law to increase in earning power.

After completing a two year stint in military service, he briefly taught school at Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida before becoming a full-time writer.

Gibbs returned to Yale in June 1869 and briefly taught French to engineering students.

He taught also in Liverpool, briefly.

The future headmaster of Eton John Lewis briefly taught Latin in the early 1970s.

After receiving his Ph. D. he taught briefly as an instructor at the University of Chicago and then received a two-year National Research Fellowship.

Johnson briefly taught public speaking and debate in a Houston high school, then entered politics.

He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.

She earned an advanced degree at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute, and taught briefly at Moscow State University.

Whether Vacarius actually started a school in Theobald's household is unclear, but in the 1140s he taught briefly at Oxford.

The campus ministry building at St. Bonaventure University, the school where Merton taught English briefly between graduating from Columbia University with his M. A.

Educated as a theologian, he taught briefly before serving the bishops of Durham and London as a clerk and subsequently becoming a canon, a priest who lived a communal life.

He taught Jacqueline du Pré when she briefly attended his classes at the Paris Conservatoire, though he was not her main teacher ( that was William Pleeth ).

Shortly after the war, he taught school briefly, then moved to Montgomery, Alabama, where he worked as a desk clerk at The Exchange Hotel and also performed as a musician.

While living in North Carolina, he worked in the county clerk ’ s office, taught school briefly, and became a merchant.

In the mid 1960s, Morley briefly taught at Ohio State University, and then moved back to New York City, where he taught at the School of Visual Arts.

After studying English law at Christ's College, Cambridge, he taught law briefly at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar in 1967.

Before settling in New York, Nagel taught briefly at the University of California, Berkeley ( from 1963 to 1966 ) and at Princeton University ( from 1966 to 1980 ), where he trained many well-known philosophers including Susan Wolf, Shelly Kagan, and Samuel Scheffler, who is now his colleague at NYU.

Her father, a physical education teacher ( who had represented Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics ), taught briefly at Sidcot School, and sometime during this period Simmons followed her elder sister on to the village stage and sang songs such as " Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow Wow ".

She taught English in high school briefly while studying theatre and dance at the University of Illinois.