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- ↑ "The Poetry Center at Smith College". Archived from the original on 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
- ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellows > Gerald Stern Bio Archived June 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
