Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet. His work was 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 a National Book Award for poetry in 1998 and the Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets in 2005. For many years he taught poetry writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Stern is currently a distinguished poet in residence at New England College's poetry MFA program.

Works

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• The Naming of Beasts
• Rejoicings
• Lucky Life
• The Red Coal
• Paradise Poems
• Lovesick
• Two Long Poems
• Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems
• Bread Without Sugar
• Odd Mercy
• This Time: New and Selected Poems
• ''Last Blue Balled Man on Earth"
• American Sonnets (2002) (shortlisted for the 2003 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Not God After All
• Everything Is Burning

External links

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• Publisher's Page: Gerald Stern
• Academy of American Poets Page: Gerald Stern
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio clip

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RT @Poetry_Daily: Gerald Stern at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival (via YouTube): http://bit.ly/7dB0Ur
BainbridgeArts (Bainbridge Arts) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:25:02 -0000
RT @Poetry_Daily: Gerald Stern at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival (via YouTube): http://bit.ly/7dB0Ur
"and one by one my lungs were ruined but I wouldn't / change my life, what for?" (Gerald Stern) http://bit.ly/6vEouw
Poetry_Daily (Poetry Daily) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:53:29 -0000
"and one by one my lungs were ruined but I wouldn't / change my life, what for?" (Gerald Stern) http://bit.ly/6vEouw
Reading two poems by Gerald Stern, suitable for a Monday morning: http://bit.ly/85PvvP
greenskeptic (ScottEdward Anderson) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:37:55 -0000
Reading two poems by Gerald Stern, suitable for a Monday morning: http://bit.ly/85PvvP

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