Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award for This Time; the Lamont Prize, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, American Academy of Poets, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. Widely revered as a master teacher, he has taught at many universities including Columbia, NYU, Iowa, and has been a guest at numerous venues such as the Prague Summer Workshops and New England College’s MFA Program. His memoir, What I Can’t Bear Losing: Notes From a Life, has been widely praised. His American Sonnetsreinvented the genre, and his latest book, Everything is Burning, has just been released.
For more on Gerald Stern, visit his Poetry Exhibit at poets.org, the Gerald Stern page at Norton Poets Online, and the Gerald Stern page at Blue Flower Arts.