Gerald Stern

Gerald Stern (born 1925 in Pittsburgh) is an American poet. He 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. For many years he taught poetry writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Stern retired in 1995.

Works

• 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
• American Sonnets