Athens, Ga. – Author Gerald Stern will read from his poetry on Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall. The reading is sponsored by the University of Georgia Creative Writing Program and is free and open to the public.
Stern is the author of several books of poetry, including Last Blue: Poems (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000); This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), which won the National Book Award; Odd Mercy (1995); Bread Without Sugar (1992), winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize; Leaving Another Kingdom: Selected Poems (1990); Two Long Poems (1990); Lovesick (1987); Paradise Poems (1984); The Red Coal (1981), which received the Melville Caine Award from the Poetry Society of America; Lucky Life, the 1977 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Rejoicings (1973).
In addition to the National Book Award, his honors include a Guggenheim, four National Endowment for the Arts awards, a fellowship from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Ruth Lilly Prize. Stern has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop until his retirement in 1995. He now lives in Lambertville, N.J. His most recent book is What I Can’t Bear Losing; Notes from a Life (2003).
