John Gery

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Full Name	John Gery
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Jun 2, 1953(1953-06-02)
Age	71
Birthplace	Reading
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Gemini

John Gery Biography

John Gery is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on June 2, 1953 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. Gery was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Gery is the 4th child born to Malcolm R. Dougherty (1922-1960) who was a U.S. diplomat and businessman of Scotch-Irish and German descent and Eugenie Gunesh Gery (maiden name, Guran, 1926- ) is a housewife and teacher from Turkish as well as Russian descent. Following the divorce of his parents and his mother’s marriage to Addison H. Gery, Jr. (1923-85), an artist as well as a business executive Gery was raised in the tiny Moravian in the Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch settlement located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. At the age of eight the young man had been legally adopted by his stepfather, and was legally adopted by his stepfather and had his name changed. He attended the local school until the tenth grade, and showed an early aptitude for music, writing and acting. He attended for two years his school, the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey where he earned the diploma of his high school. He graduated with a bachelor’s at Princeton University with Honors in English (1975) as well as master’s degrees in English from the University of Chicago (1976) as well as a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Stanford University (1978). At Princeton where he studied, he worked with poets from all over the world, including Mark Strand, John Peck, George Garrett, and Theodore Weiss, and at Chicago was a student of Robert von Hallberg and Richard Stern. The most influential teacher in poetry was Donald Davie at Stanford, in which he also taught Kenneth Fields, Albert Gelpi, N. Scott Momaday, Diane Middlebrook and others.

In 1992-93, Gery received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of Arts. In 2007 Gery was granted an Fulbright lecturer as well as a Research Fellowship in the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade in Serbia. At UNO He was presented with The Seraphia D. Leyda Teaching Fellowship from 2009 to 2012.

In 2006, Gery was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. In the same year he was also the Annadora Gregory Lecturer at Doane College, Nebraska. Gery has also taught at the University of Iowa (1991, 1993) and has been a summer Poet-In-Residence at Bucknell University. He has also lectured at the Centro Studi Americani (Rome), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Beijing Institute of Technology, University of Roma Tre, and University of Salamanca.

Gery was a professor at the beginning of his professional career, by lecturing in Stanford as well as San Jose State Universities for two years in succession before joining his current position at University of New Orleans (UNO) as an instructor in 1979. The year 1999 saw him was appointed an Associate professor in English within UNO. In 1990, Gery was appointed Director of UNO’s Ezra Pound Center for Literature. Gery has served as Director for the Ezra Pound International Conference since 2005 and also as the Series Editor for the EPCL Book Series at UNO Press since 2008.

John Gery Net Worth

John Gery is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Gery 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John Gery (born John Roy Octavius Dougherty on June 2, 1953 1953) is an American poet writer, critic, collaborative translator and editor. The poet has written seven volumes of poetry, including a critical study of the subject of nuclear destruction in American poetry and two volumes co-edited by literary criticism, and two edited anthologies of contemporary poetry. He also wrote a biography co-written by him and a guidebook for Ezra Pound’s Venice.

Gery has a wife, writer Biljana Obradovic (1961- ). The couple has a child. Petar Malcolm Oradovic Gery (2003– ).

Writing about The Enemies of Leisure (1995) in Louisiana Literature, Alan Golding comments that “the scope and delicacy” of Gery’s work “in Ashberry’s words, ‘takes in the whole world, now, but lightly /Still lightly, but with wide authority and tact.” Stephen Behrendt describes Davenport’s Version (2003), a book-length narrative poem set during the Union occupation of Civil War New Orleans that portrays “a triangular relationship that melds passion, deception, and betrayal in ways that parallel the tragic and internecine war” itself, as “a remarkable feat of poetic and psychological sleight of hand.” “The voice assigned to Davenport,” the poem’s narrator, observes Behrendt, “is the sort of wise, universalized voice one associates with the narrators of epic works ranging from Homer to Whitman and Crane.” About Gery’s collection, A Gallery of Ghosts(2008), Susan Larson notes, “Gery’s distinctive poetic voice lends seemingly orderly poems an ironic sharpness that cuts close to the bone. These poems convey both the bliss and pain of our existence, never shying away from life’s uncomfortable truths.” Most recently, in a review of Gery’s Have at You Now! (2014), a collection he calls “multiple and wide- ranging,” Daniel Wallace writes how “Gery troubles his readers with doubts, failings, and deeply grounded despair” but in verse that “is in turn whimsical, comic, erotic, and nostalgic.” And Amy Tercek in Poet Lore observes, “The connection between Hamlet and Have at You Now! is most obvious in poems that examine the conflict between the activist’s urge to fight and the artist’s need to give form to experience” in what she calls a “beautifully staged collection.”

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