Editing Gerald Stern (section)

==Career==
[[File:Stern & Pinsky.jpg|thumb|Stern with [[Robert Pinsky]]]]

After earning his master's degree, Stern relocated to Europe to undertake doctoral studies at the [[University of Paris]].<ref name="NYT obit"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Two award-winning poets on tap in Frostic Reading Series|url=https://wmich.edu/news/2016/04/31504|date=April 7, 2016|access-date=October 29, 2022|publisher=[[Western Michigan University]]}}</ref>  However, he did not finish his degree and spent his twenties traveling between New York City and Europe.<ref name=gug /><ref name=Norman>{{cite news|title=Poet Gerald Stern remains riveting|url=https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2015/10/13/Tony-Norman-3/stories/201510130058|first=Tony|last=Norman|date=October 12, 2015|access-date=October 29, 2022|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030052711/https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/tony-norman/2015/10/13/Tony-Norman-3/stories/201510130058|archivedate=October 30, 2022}}</ref>  It was during this time that he started to write and publish poetry.<ref name="NYT obit"/>  Stern went back to the US in 1956 and started teaching at [[Temple University]].<ref name="NYT obit"/>  He remained there for seven years and left after being unable to receive [[Academic tenure|tenure]].  He subsequently taught at [[Indiana University of Pennsylvania]] for four years.<ref name=Norman/>  After a period of [[paid leave]], he taught at [[Raritan Valley Community College]] in New Jersey,<ref name=Norman/><ref name=Cutler>{{cite news|title=Gerald Stern: A Q&A with New Jersey's former poet laureate|url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/2012/11/gerald_stern_a_qa_with_new_jer.html|first=Jacqueline|last=Cutler|date=November 18, 2012|access-date=October 29, 2022|newspaper=[[NJ.com]]}}</ref> before briefly working at Pittsburgh (his alma mater) in 1979.<ref name=Norman/>  He then went to the [[University of Iowa]] at the behest of the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]], and taught there for 14 years until his retirement in 1996.  Stern came out of retirement to teach at [[Sarah Lawrence College]] for a while.<ref name=Norman/>

Stern published his first poem, "The Pineys", in 1969 in ''The Journal of the Rutgers University Library''.  Four years later, he released his first [[poetry collection]] titled ''Rejoicings''.<ref name="NYT obit"/>  His work became widely recognized after the 1977 publication of his second collection, ''Lucky Life'',<ref name="NYT obit"/> which was that year's [[Lamont Poetry Selection]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Gerald Stern to Read His Poems at the Library of Congress|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-01-057/gerald-stern-to-read-his-poems-at-the-library-of-congress/2001-04-10/|date=April 10, 2001|access-date=October 29, 2022|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> and was nominated for the [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry]].<ref name="NYT obit"/>  He also authored a series of essays on writing poetry in ''[[American Poetry Review]].''  He went on to receive several awards for his writing, including the 1996 [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]], the 1998 [[National Book Award]] for ''This Time: New and Selected Poems,''<ref name=nba1998/> and the 2012 [[Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry|Library of Congress Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Award]]<ref name="Bobbitt" /> for ''Early Collected Poems: 1965–1992.'' He was [[Poet Laureate of New Jersey]] from 2000 to 2002,<ref name=aap /><ref>[https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/newjersey.html Library of Congress > accessed May 16, 2008]</ref> and received the [[Wallace Stevens Award]] from the [[Academy of American Poets]] in 2005. From 2006 on Stern was a chancellor of the [[Academy of American Poets]].<ref name=aap>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/gerald-stern |title=About Gerald Stern |publisher=[[Academy of American Poets]]}}</ref>

In addition to the aforementioned academic institutions, Stern also taught at [[Rutgers University]].<ref name=Cutler/>  During the mid-1970s, he was a literature consultant for both New Jersey and Pennsylvania Council of the Arts as well as a coordinator for Pennsylvania's poetry in schools program.<ref name="Stern"/>  Stern was a faculty member and co-founder of [[New England College]]'s [[Master of Fine Arts]] Program in Poetry.