 Between 1975 and 1978, he was a Junior Fellow with the Society of Fellows at Harvard University.His poetry has been published in magazines such as "The Paris Review", "The Nation", "Poetry (Chicago)", "Descant", "American Poetry Review", "The Virginia Quarterly Review" and "Ploughshares"., He has lived in Toronto, Canada since 1979 teaching Brazilian and Portuguese Literature at the University of Toronto.He is the author of four books.