Ira’s poetry has appeared in Poetry New York, The Alembic, The New York Quarterly, Entelechy International, Diner, Ridgefield Magazine, The New Hampshire Review, and the anthology Confrontation. He is the author of Remembering Rew, a poetry chapbook, and three full-length collections, Some Holy Weight in the Village Air (2006), Songs From An Earlier Century (2009), and The Creek at the End of the Lawns (2012) and a collection of essays, Wide and Wavy Out of Salamanca (2020). 

He presents readings and conducts poetry workshops in New York and throughout New England. Ira has a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. He has taught communications and broadcast history at New England College and poetry at the University of Connecticut in Stamford, Waterbury, Torrington, Western Connecticut State University, Mercy College, and Founders Hall in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

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