1. Gerald Daniel Stern was an American poet, essayist, and educator.
19 Facts About Gerald Stern
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Gerald Stern received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1998 for This Time: New and Selected Poems and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1991 for Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems.
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Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 22,1925.
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Gerald Stern attended Taylor Allderdice High School in his hometown, graduating in 1942.
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Gerald Stern was initially rejected from military service due to his poor eyesight, but served in the Army Air Forces from 1946 to 1947 after the military re-examined him.
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Gerald Stern studied at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1947.
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Gerald Stern went back to the US in 1956 and started teaching at Temple University.
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Gerald Stern remained there for seven years and left after being unable to receive tenure.
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Gerald Stern subsequently taught at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for four years.
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Gerald Stern then went to the University of Iowa at the behest of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and taught there for 14 years until his retirement in 1996.
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Gerald Stern came out of retirement to teach at Sarah Lawrence College for a while.
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Gerald Stern published his first poem, "The Pineys", in 1969 in The Journal of the Rutgers University Library.
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Gerald Stern's work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of his second collection, Lucky Life, which was that year's Lamont Poetry Selection, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
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Gerald Stern authored a series of essays on writing poetry in American Poetry Review.
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Gerald Stern was Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2000 to 2002, and received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets in 2005.
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From 2006 on Gerald Stern was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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Gerald Stern was a faculty member and co-founder of New England College's Master of Fine Arts Program in Poetry.
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Gerald Stern was in a domestic partnership with poet Anne Marie Macari during the last 25 years of his life, and he lived in New York City and Miami Beach, Florida.
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Gerald Stern died on October 27,2022, at the Calvary Hospice in New York City.