1949 (summer)
Assistant, Literature Department, Brooklyn (NY) Public Library.
1951-1954
Publicity Department, Oxford University Press, New York.
1954-1955
Copywriter, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.
1957-1958
Instructor (1st- & 2nd-year French language), New York University (Bronx campus)
1960-1965
Art critic, New York Herald-Tribune (International Edition), Paris, France.
1960-1962
Coeditor, Locus Solus, Lans-en-Vercors, France.
1961-1963
Art critic, Art International, Lugano, Switzerland.
1964-1967
Coeditor, Art and Literature, Paris, France.
1965-1972
Executive editor, ArtNews, New York.
1974-1990
Professor of English and Co-director of the MFA program in Creative Writing, Brooklyn College (CUNY). Named Distinguished Professor in 1980 and Distinguished Professor Emeritus in 1990.
1976-1980
Poetry editor, Partisan Review, New York.
1978-1980
Art critic, New York magazine, New York.
1980-1985
Art critic, Newsweek, New York.
1989-1990
Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, Cambridge MA.
1990-2008
Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY. Named Professor Emeritus in 2008.
