[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"

Stephen Burt is a literary critic, poet, and a professor at Harvard University. His collections of poetry include Popular Music, Parallel Play, and Belmont.

 
Here Burt reads from his latest collection, Belmont: Poems, and discusses its place in the rest of his body of work.
 

To see our Festival of Books author interview round-up (including Margaret Atwood, Rachel Kushner, Tom Bissell, Jess Walter, Sammy Harkham, Hope Larson, Rob Roberge and more) click here.
 

 

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  For the full interview with RACHEL KUSHNER, author of The Flamethrowers, click here.
   

  
  

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  For the full interview with TOM BISSELL, video game critic and author of Magic Hours, click here.
   

  
  

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Produced by James Simenc & Jerry Gorin / Interview by Mike Goetzman