- Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern (born February 22, 1925) is an American
poet .Born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania , U.S. to Harry and Ida Barach Stern, he was educated in thePittsburgh Public Schools . Stern earned his B.A. at theUniversity of Pittsburgh in 1947 and an M.A. atColumbia University in 1949. He did post-graduate study at theUniversity of Paris in 1949-50.He married Patricia Miller in 1952 (divorced); they have two children: Rachael and David.
His work has been widely recognized after the 1977 publication of "Lucky Life" and a series of essays on writing poetry in
American Poetry Review . He has been given many prestigious awards for his writing, including the 1996Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and aNational Book Award for poetry in 1998 for his book, "This Time: New and Selected Poems." He wasPoet Laureate ofNew Jersey from 2000 to 2002 [ [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/231 Academy of American Poets] , accessedMay 16 ,2008 ] [ [http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/newjersey.html Library of Congress] accessedMay 16 ,2008 ] , and received theWallace Stevens Award from theAcademy of American Poets in 2005.Stern has taught at
Temple University andIndiana University of Pennsylvania . For a number of years prior to achieving fame, he taught atRaritan Valley Community College . For many years he taught poetry writing at theIowa Writers' Workshop . Stern is currently a faculty member ofNew England College 's Masters of Fine Arts Program in Poetry.Works
* "Pineys", poetry, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1971)
* "The Naming of Beasts", poetry, (Omaha: Cummington Press, 1972)
* "Rejoicings: Selected Poems 1966-72", poetry, (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973)
* "Lucky Life", poetry, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
* "The Red Coal", poetry, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981)
* "Paradise Poems", poetry, (New York: Random House, 1984)
* "Lovesick", poetry, (New York: Perennial Library, 1986)
* "Selected Essays", essays, (New York: Harper, 1988)
* "Two Long Poems", poetry, (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1990)
* "Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems" poetry, (New York: Harper, 1990)
* "Bread without Sugar", poetry, (New York: Norton, 1992)
* "Odd Mercy", poetry, (New York: Norton, 1994)
* "This Time: New and Selected Poems", poetry, (New York: Norton, 1998)
* "Last Blue", poetry, (New York: Norton, 2000)
* "American Sonnets", poetry, (New York: Norton, 2002) (shortlisted for the 2003 InternationalGriffin Poetry Prize )
* "Not God After All", poetry, (Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2004)
* "What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life", essays, (New York: Norton, 2004)
* "Everything Is Burning", poetry, (New York: Norton, 2005)
* "Save the Last Dance: Poems" (New York: Norton, 2008)References
*Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2005.
External links
* [http://www.nortonpoets.com/sterng.htm Publisher's Page: Gerald Stern]
* [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/231 Academy of American Poets Page: Gerald Stern]
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2003.php?t=6 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips]
* [http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v2n2/poetry/stern_g/index.htm Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, includes recently published poems]
* [http://www.alittlepoetry.com/stern.html Online poem at alittlepoetry.com]
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