Stephen Burt, the final Distinguished Visiting Writer of the spring 2017 semester, will give a reading on Tuesday, March 28th in Klingenstein Lounge at 8 PM.Stephen Burt, the final Distinguished Visiting Writer of the spring 2017 semester, will give a reading on Tuesday, March 28th in Klingenstein Lounge at 8 PM.
Stephen Burt is a poet, essayist, and literary critic with eight published books, including two critical books on poetry and three poetry collections. Burt’s most recent essay collection is The Poem is You: 50 or So Contemporary Poems and How to Read Them (Harvard University Press, 2016); the essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Burt’s other works include Belmont; The Art of the Sonnet; Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler; The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry; Parallel Play: Poems; Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden; Randall Jarrell and His Age; and Popular Music. Advice from the Lights, a book of poems, will be published by Graywolf in 2017. A recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, Burt is a professor of English at Harvard University.
The New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of his generation.”
Watch Burt's TED Talk, "Why We Need Poetry."
Visit the event page here, and learn more about the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series here.
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