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Uploaded by on Feb 26, 2009

http://www.DDAVideo was asked by Penn State University's Pennsylvania Center for the Book to capture celebrated poet, Gerald Stern, reading his poem "Behaving Like a Jew" from his book "Lucky Life". The DVD was presented at a reading celebrating the Public Poetry Project's new series of posters. Gerald Stern is a four time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He has also been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Gerald Stern is the winner of the Paris Review's Bernard Conners Award, the Bess Hokin Award for Poetry, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the Pennsylvania Governor General's Award for Excellence in the Arts.

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  • Wow! What a great poem! I enjoyed every minute of it and saw every image being portraide in my mind. Keep up the good writing!

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