Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Gerald Stern and Anne Marie Macari

 You don't want to miss these two special events. On Thursday, November 15th, there is a Poetry Reading and Reception with the two poets, Gerald Stern and Anne Marie Macari. It will be held at the Norman Depot - Performing Arts Studio. And then on Friday, November 16th, there is A Conversation with the Authors from 3-5 p.m. at the Lab Theatre in the Old Science Hall 200.


Gerald Stern, the author of 17 poetry collections, has won the National Book Award, Jewish Book Award, and the Wallace Stevens Award, among others. in 2006 he was a nominee for the Neustadt Internatinal Prize for Literature, and Kate Daniels has called him "the U.S.'s one and only truly global poet." His most recent books include "In Beauty Bright (Norton 2012) and "Stealing History (Trinity 2012).

About his work, the poet Toi Derricotte has said, "Gerald Stern has made an immense contribution to American
poetry. His poems are not only great poems, memorable ones, but ones that get into your heart and stay there. Their lyrical ecstasies take you up for that moment so that your vision is changed, you are changed. The voice is intimate, someone unafraid to be imperfect. Gerald Stern’s poems sing in praise of the natural world, and in outrage of whatever is antihuman."


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Anne Marie Macari is an American poet. Her most recent book is She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House Press, 2008). Her first book won The APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, such as TriQuarterly, Bloomsbury Review, Shenandoah, The American Poetry Review, Five Points, The Cortland Review and The Iowa Review, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009) and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences (Four Way Books).

A graduate of Oberlin College, she holds an MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence. Macari has taught on the faculty of the Prague Summer Seminars.

She was born in Queens, New York and lives in Lambertville, New Jersey. She is the director of the Drew University Low-Residency MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. She is also a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board.


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