Stephen Yenser is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English at UCLA, where he has received the Harvey L. Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. He curates the Hammer Poetry Readings at the Hammer Museum in Westwood and teaches courses in the writing of poems and in twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry. He has directed or co-directed Ph.D. dissertations on such subjects as the work of Elizabeth Bishop, the poetry of Jorie Graham, the work of James Merrill and Stéphane Mallarmé, the writing of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and music, Charles Simic and exile, the poems of W. S. Merwin, the poems of Galway Kinnell, the novels of Nabokov, American women poets, assimilation and twentieth-century American-Jewish poets, the Bible in contemporary American poetry, strategies of self in the postmodern era, and Pragmatism and American poetics.
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