Ira Sadoff (b. 1945) Nazis LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Ira Sadoff (b. 1945) Sadoff was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He earned a B.A. (1966) from Cornell University in industrial and labor relations and an M.F.A. (1968) from the University of Oregon. He has taught at several colleges and universities and is now the Dana Professor of Poetry at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Among his volumes of poetry are Settling Down (1975), Maine: Nine Poems (1981), and Emotional Traffic (1989). He has also written a novel, Uncoupling (1982). An Ira Sadoff Reader was published in 1992. He has characterized himself as "one poet among a decreasing minority who is trying to resist the return to formalism, the sterile, conservative, aesthete academicism of the nineteen-fifties."