Rachel Zucker speaks with poet, essayist and educator Gerald Stern about his new poems, his old poems, Tourette Syndrome, keeping in touch with students, the Iowa Writers Workshop, teaching, place, memory, writing (not nice things about) living or identifiable people, Jewish identity and much more.
Extra Materials for Episode 54Books by Gerald SternGalaxy Love (W. W. Norton, 2017)
Divine Nothingness (W. W. Norton, 2016)
Death Watch: A View from the Tenth Decade (Trinity University Press, 2017)
This Time (Vaso Roto, 2014)
Stealing History (Trinity University Press, 2012)
In Beauty Bright (W. W. Norton, 2012)
Early Collected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2010)
What I Can’t Bear Losing: Essays (Trinity University Press, 2009)
The Preacher: A Poem (Sarabande, 2007)
Everything is Burning (W. W. Norton, 2006)
American Sonnets (W. W. Norton, 2003)
Last Blue (W. W. Norton, 2001)
This Time: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 1999)
Lucky Life (Carnegie Mellon, 1995)
Bread Without Sugar (W. W. Norton, 1993)
Other Books/Writers Mentioned in the EpisodeTerrance Hayes
Anne Marie Macari
Ross Gay
Thomas Lux
Marvin Bell
Brenda Hillman
Robert Hass
Jorie Graham
Heather McHugh
Bob Perelman
Lucy Biederman
James Schuyler
Ezra Pound
Matthew Rohrer
Robert Lowell
Allen Tate
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Episode 61: Rosa Alcalá (Translation Series, Ep. 1)
Episode 60: Robin Coste Lewis
Episode 59: Alison S. M. Kobayashi
Episode 58: Cate Marvin
Episode 57: Dorothea Lasky
Episode 56: Jennifer Kronovet
Episode 55: Anne Waldman
Episode 53: Tommy Pico
Episode 52: Richard Siken
Episode 51: TC Tolbert
Episode 50: Inside Commonplace
Episode 49: CAConrad
Episode 48: Poets at MacDowell: Destiny Birdsong, Juleen Johnson, Jenny George, Eloisa Amezcua, & Amanda Galvan Huynh
Episode 47: Erin Riley
Episode 46: Allison Parrish
Episode 45: Tyehimba Jess
Episode 44: Matthew Zapruder
Episode 43: Airea D. Matthews
Episode 42: Gabrielle Calvocoressi
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