Editing Gerald Stern (section)

{{Short description|American poet, essayist, educator (1925–2022)}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name             = Gerald Stern
| image            = Stern, Gerald (Portrait).jpg
| caption          = Stern at the [[Miami Book Fair International]] in 2011
| alt              = Image of Gerald Stern wearing a hat
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1925|02|22|}}
| birth_place      = [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania, U.S.
| occupation       = {{cslist | Poet | essayist | educator}}
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2022|10|27|1925|02|22}} 
| death_place      = New York City, U.S.
| education        = {{Plain list|
* [[University of Pittsburgh]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
* [[Columbia University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
* [[University of Paris]]}}
| notableworks     = 
| spouse           = {{marriage|Patricia Miller|1952||end=divorced}}
| partner          = [[Anne Marie Macari]]
| children         = 2
}}
'''Gerald Daniel Stern''' (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at [[Temple University]], [[Indiana University of Pennsylvania]], [[Raritan Valley Community College]] and the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]]. From 2009 until his death, he was a distinguished poet-in-residence and faculty member of [[Drew University]]'s graduate program for a [[Master of Fine Arts]] (MFA) in poetry.

Stern was a graduate of the [[University of Pittsburgh]] and [[Columbia University]] and attended the [[University of Paris]] for post-graduate study. He 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''. In 2000, Governor [[Christine Todd Whitman]] appointed him the first [[Poet Laureate of New Jersey]].