The public is invited to attend and donations will be accepted. Stern, author of nine collections of poetry, has won many awards including a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Paterson Poetry Prize, the Lamont Poetry Prize and grants from the Guggenheim National Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. A Pittsburgh native, Stern has taught at a number of universities. For 13 years, he was on the faculty of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Each fall, Writers Harvest brings together more than 2,000 writers to fight hunger and poverty by reading from their works in more than 600 bookstores, college campuses and community centers around the country.
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