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Poetry Everywhere: "The Dancing" by Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern reads his poem "The Dancing." Part of the Poetry Everywhere project airing on public television. Produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Boston, in association with the Poetry Foundation. Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/.
published: 30 Mar 2009
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Poet Gerald Stern Reads 'The One Thing in Life'
Poet Gerald Stern reads "The One Thing in Life."
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
published: 31 Jan 2013
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Poet Gerald Stern Looks Back on Career of Reading, Writing
Jeffrey Brown talks with Gerald Stern, one of America's most acclaimed poets. At 87, Stern received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress for his collection, "Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992." Stern reflects on his working class upbringing and 70 years of writing verse.
published: 03 Apr 2013
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Gerald Stern Reads: "The Dancing"
"The Dancing," from Gerald Stern's 1984 collection Paradise Poems, captures the discord between the poet's relatively carefree all-American upbringing and the suffering endured by his fellow Jews during the Holocaust.
This talk was taped on April 1, 2010.
published: 12 Jun 2014
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Gerald Stern reading two poems at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival
"Lillies" and "She Was a Dove"
published: 06 Feb 2009
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Poet Gerald Stern at the NYS Writers Institute in 2006
Gerald Stern, major American poet, received the National Book Award for This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), and the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets (2005) for "proven mastery in the art of poetry." Stern has been called a "post-nuclear Walt Whitman" for work that shares the spoken rhythms, extended lines, open forms, love of nature, defense of humanities, and sheer exuberance of the "bard of Democracy." This interview was made shortly after the publication of Stern's collection Everything is Burning (2005). Earlier collections include American Sonnets (2002), Last Blue (2000), Odd Mercy (1995), Bread Without Sugar (1992), The Red Coal (1981), winner of the Melville Caine Award of the Poetry Society of America, and Lucky Life (1977), a finalist for the ...
published: 29 Jul 2015
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Loneliness by Gerald Stern
ABOUT STERN
Gerald Stern has been called an “American original,” “a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary,” and, by his friend Stanley Kunitz, “the wilderness in American poetry.” Over dozens of books, and decades of teaching and activism, Stern has emerged as one of America’s most celebrated and irascible poets. “If I could choose one poem of mine to explain my stance,” Stern told Contemporary Poets, “it would be ‘The One Thing in Life,’ which appears in Lucky Life.” According to Stern, the poem, which includes the lines “There is a sweetness buried in my mind/there is water with a small cave behind it,” makes a claim for his own inheritance and legacy: “I stake out a place for myself, so to speak, that was overlooked or ignored or disdained, a place no one else wanted.” Stern was ...
published: 05 Jul 2022
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Poet Gerald Stern reads from American Sonnets: Poems
U.S. poet Gerald Stern reads the poem "Roses" from American Sonnets: Poems, shortlisted for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Learn more about the Griffin Poetry Prize at http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com.
published: 03 Feb 2009
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"The Dancing" read by author Gerald Stern
http://www.rps.psu.edu/word/stern/index.html
published: 04 Mar 2011
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Conversation: Poet Gerald Stern
Jeffrey Brown talks to poet Gerald Stern.
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
published: 31 Jan 2013
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Poetry Everywhere: "The Dancing" by Gerald Stern
Gerald Stern reads his poem "The Dancing." Part of the Poetry Everywhere project airing on public television. Produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Bost...
Gerald Stern reads his poem "The Dancing." Part of the Poetry Everywhere project airing on public television. Produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Boston, in association with the Poetry Foundation. Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/.
https://wn.com/Poetry_Everywhere_The_Dancing_By_Gerald_Stern
Gerald Stern reads his poem "The Dancing." Part of the Poetry Everywhere project airing on public television. Produced by David Grubin Productions and WGBH Boston, in association with the Poetry Foundation. Filmed at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/.
- published: 30 Mar 2009
- views: 6304
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Poet Gerald Stern Reads 'The One Thing in Life'
Poet Gerald Stern reads "The One Thing in Life."
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
Poet Gerald Stern reads "The One Thing in Life."
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
https://wn.com/Poet_Gerald_Stern_Reads_'The_One_Thing_In_Life'
Poet Gerald Stern reads "The One Thing in Life."
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 2685
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Poet Gerald Stern Looks Back on Career of Reading, Writing
Jeffrey Brown talks with Gerald Stern, one of America's most acclaimed poets. At 87, Stern received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Co...
Jeffrey Brown talks with Gerald Stern, one of America's most acclaimed poets. At 87, Stern received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress for his collection, "Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992." Stern reflects on his working class upbringing and 70 years of writing verse.
https://wn.com/Poet_Gerald_Stern_Looks_Back_On_Career_Of_Reading,_Writing
Jeffrey Brown talks with Gerald Stern, one of America's most acclaimed poets. At 87, Stern received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress for his collection, "Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992." Stern reflects on his working class upbringing and 70 years of writing verse.
- published: 03 Apr 2013
- views: 1979
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Gerald Stern Reads: "The Dancing"
"The Dancing," from Gerald Stern's 1984 collection Paradise Poems, captures the discord between the poet's relatively carefree all-American upbringing and the s...
"The Dancing," from Gerald Stern's 1984 collection Paradise Poems, captures the discord between the poet's relatively carefree all-American upbringing and the suffering endured by his fellow Jews during the Holocaust.
This talk was taped on April 1, 2010.
https://wn.com/Gerald_Stern_Reads_The_Dancing
"The Dancing," from Gerald Stern's 1984 collection Paradise Poems, captures the discord between the poet's relatively carefree all-American upbringing and the suffering endured by his fellow Jews during the Holocaust.
This talk was taped on April 1, 2010.
- published: 12 Jun 2014
- views: 345
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Poet Gerald Stern at the NYS Writers Institute in 2006
Gerald Stern, major American poet, received the National Book Award for This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), and the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award of the ...
Gerald Stern, major American poet, received the National Book Award for This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), and the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets (2005) for "proven mastery in the art of poetry." Stern has been called a "post-nuclear Walt Whitman" for work that shares the spoken rhythms, extended lines, open forms, love of nature, defense of humanities, and sheer exuberance of the "bard of Democracy." This interview was made shortly after the publication of Stern's collection Everything is Burning (2005). Earlier collections include American Sonnets (2002), Last Blue (2000), Odd Mercy (1995), Bread Without Sugar (1992), The Red Coal (1981), winner of the Melville Caine Award of the Poetry Society of America, and Lucky Life (1977), a finalist for the National Bopok Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of a book of essays, What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life (2004).
https://wn.com/Poet_Gerald_Stern_At_The_Nys_Writers_Institute_In_2006
Gerald Stern, major American poet, received the National Book Award for This Time: New and Selected Poems (1998), and the $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets (2005) for "proven mastery in the art of poetry." Stern has been called a "post-nuclear Walt Whitman" for work that shares the spoken rhythms, extended lines, open forms, love of nature, defense of humanities, and sheer exuberance of the "bard of Democracy." This interview was made shortly after the publication of Stern's collection Everything is Burning (2005). Earlier collections include American Sonnets (2002), Last Blue (2000), Odd Mercy (1995), Bread Without Sugar (1992), The Red Coal (1981), winner of the Melville Caine Award of the Poetry Society of America, and Lucky Life (1977), a finalist for the National Bopok Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of a book of essays, What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life (2004).
- published: 29 Jul 2015
- views: 141
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Loneliness by Gerald Stern
ABOUT STERN
Gerald Stern has been called an “American original,” “a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary,” and, by his friend Stanley Kunitz, “the wilde...
ABOUT STERN
Gerald Stern has been called an “American original,” “a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary,” and, by his friend Stanley Kunitz, “the wilderness in American poetry.” Over dozens of books, and decades of teaching and activism, Stern has emerged as one of America’s most celebrated and irascible poets. “If I could choose one poem of mine to explain my stance,” Stern told Contemporary Poets, “it would be ‘The One Thing in Life,’ which appears in Lucky Life.” According to Stern, the poem, which includes the lines “There is a sweetness buried in my mind/there is water with a small cave behind it,” makes a claim for his own inheritance and legacy: “I stake out a place for myself, so to speak, that was overlooked or ignored or disdained, a place no one else wanted.” Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925.
https://wn.com/Loneliness_By_Gerald_Stern
ABOUT STERN
Gerald Stern has been called an “American original,” “a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic visionary,” and, by his friend Stanley Kunitz, “the wilderness in American poetry.” Over dozens of books, and decades of teaching and activism, Stern has emerged as one of America’s most celebrated and irascible poets. “If I could choose one poem of mine to explain my stance,” Stern told Contemporary Poets, “it would be ‘The One Thing in Life,’ which appears in Lucky Life.” According to Stern, the poem, which includes the lines “There is a sweetness buried in my mind/there is water with a small cave behind it,” makes a claim for his own inheritance and legacy: “I stake out a place for myself, so to speak, that was overlooked or ignored or disdained, a place no one else wanted.” Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1925.
- published: 05 Jul 2022
- views: 146
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Poet Gerald Stern reads from American Sonnets: Poems
U.S. poet Gerald Stern reads the poem "Roses" from American Sonnets: Poems, shortlisted for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Learn more about the Griffin Poetr...
U.S. poet Gerald Stern reads the poem "Roses" from American Sonnets: Poems, shortlisted for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Learn more about the Griffin Poetry Prize at http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com.
https://wn.com/Poet_Gerald_Stern_Reads_From_American_Sonnets_Poems
U.S. poet Gerald Stern reads the poem "Roses" from American Sonnets: Poems, shortlisted for the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Learn more about the Griffin Poetry Prize at http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com.
- published: 03 Feb 2009
- views: 1036
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Conversation: Poet Gerald Stern
Jeffrey Brown talks to poet Gerald Stern.
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
Jeffrey Brown talks to poet Gerald Stern.
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
https://wn.com/Conversation_Poet_Gerald_Stern
Jeffrey Brown talks to poet Gerald Stern.
For more arts coverage, visit Art Beat:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/
- published: 31 Jan 2013
- views: 1600
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