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Poet Samuel Menashe to Read from His Works at Dowling College Ceremony
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| Poet Samuel Menashe will read from his works on Monday, April 24, 2006 at Dowling College. |
Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society at Dowling College, will welcome poet Samuel Menashe as he reads from his works at the Society's Induction Ceremony, taking place on Monday, April 24, 2006 in the Ballroom of Fortunoff Hall, located at Dowling's historic Rudolph Campus in Oakdale.
Menashe fought in World War II as an infantryman in the 87th Infantry. He also fought in France, Belgium, and Germany during the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, Menashe earned a Doctorat d' Universeté at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1950.
His first collection of poems, The Many Names Beloved, was published by the London publisher, Victor Gollancz in 1961. The Modern Poets Series, published by Penguin, featured a collection of his poems and Menashe's book of poems, The Niche Narrows, was published by Talisman. His individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, and Harper's.
In 2004, Menashe served as Poet-in-Residence of the Walt Whitman Birthplace in Huntington, NY. In 2005, Samuel Menashe received The Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation. In conjunction with that honor, the Library of America and the American Poets Project published Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Ricks, 2005. The book's cover says: "Menashe's work has a mysterious simplicity, religious intensity, and a lingering emotional force."
Menashe lives in New York City.
Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honor society, established the Mu Tau chapter at Dowling College in 1987 and is comprised of active and associate members.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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