Boston Book Festival

October 17-19, 2013

2011 Presenters

Stephen Burt

Poetry: Personae, Self-Portrait As... 10:30am BLP Washington Room

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Stephen Burt is a professor of English at Harvard. His most recent collection of poetry is Why I Am Not A Toddler And Other Poems By Cooper Bennett Burt. Other collections of verse include Parallel Play and the forthcoming Belmont (Graywolf Press, 2013). He is also the author of numerous books and essays about contemporary poetry, including The Art of the Sonnet, with David Mikics, and Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

LINKS:

Close Calls with Nonsense, a Poetry Blog by Stephen Burt

An article for Publishers Weekly on "The Art of the Review"

Stephen Burt's page from The Poetry Foundation


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