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Places You Wouldn't Believe: Selections From the Gerald Stern Papers @ Archives & Special Collections: Publications: 1990-2000

This library guide is an introduction to the Special Collection exhibit on Gerald Stern.

Publications

Gallery

Photo of Stern at Iowa Writers Worshop and flyer for Pittsburgh reading

Stern and Anne Marie Macari at the National Book Awards, 1998

Stern and son at National Book Award celebration, 1999

Draft of Stern's National Book Award acceptance speech

Letter from Philip Levine to Stern, 1992

Background

During the 1990's Stern received further recognition. In 1991, Leaving Another Kingdom was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and 1993 Bread Without Sugar received the 1993 Patterson Poetry Prize. In 1998 Stern won the National Book Award for poetry for This Time: New and Selected Poems.