VenueCarlow University  

Date10/19/2012 

Time7:30 PM - 10:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorCarlow University’s Division of Humanities, Creative Writing Program, English Department, and the Madwomen in the Attic 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Madwomen Reading Series Presents: A Reading by Gerald Stern
Friday, October 19, 2012
Reading at 7:30 p.m. (book table at 7 p.m.)
Kresge Theatre, Carlow University
Free and open to the public
Reception and book signing following the reading

“Stern is one of those rare poetic souls who makes it almost impossible to remember what our world was like before his poetry came to exalt it.” — C. K. Williams

Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh in 1925 and was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. He is the author of 15 books of poetry, including, most recently, In Beauty Bright, (Norton, 2012), Save the Last Dance (Norton, 2008), and Everything is Burning (Norton, 2005), as well as This Time: New and Selected Poems, which won the 1998 National Book Award. The paperback of his personal essays titled What I Can’t Bear Losing, was published in the fall of 2009 by Trinity University Press. He was awarded the 2005 Wallace Stevens Award by the Academy of American Poets and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He is retired from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Early Collected: Poems from 1965–1992 was published by W.W. Norton in the spring of 2010. Stern’s Stealing History, a kind-of memoir, was published in early 2012 by Trinity University Press.

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Sarah Williams-Devereux, sewilliams412@carlow.edu
Jan Beatty, jpbeatty@carlow.edu

Sponsored by Carlow University’s Division of Humanities, Creative Writing Program, English Department, and the Madwomen in the Attic.

Primary Contact PersonSarah Williams-Devereux 

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Is this a book signing? Yes 

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AuthorMadwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops  

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