Stephanie Burt is professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, among them After Callimachus; Advice from the Lights, an NEA Big Read selection; and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, with her partner, two kids, too many X-Men comics, and two astonishing cats.

Stephanie Burt

“All It Takes Is Inexhaustible Patience, Limitless Time, and a Warped Mind”: A Conversation with Adrienne Raphel

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors." — Simone Weil

Cultural Studies

Dispatch

(Please Don’t Let Me Be) Misunderstood

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Chosen Family: Stephanie Burt and Chelsey Johnson Discuss “Stray City”

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Four Reincarnations

Adult Swim

The Wishes That We Harbor: The Poems of Max Ritvo and Heather Hartley

Candor Is the Brightest Shield

Erratic Facts

It’s Suddenly Understandable: On Aphorism, Lyric, and Experiment

The Infinitesimals

Death and Revelations

Troubling the Line

The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry

<h4>Gregory Pardlo’s first book, Totem, received the American Poetry Review/ Honickman Prize in 2007. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Callaloo, Gulf Coast, Harvard Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry 2010. A finalist for the Essence Magazine Literary Award in poetry, he is recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received other fellowships from the New York Times, the MacDowell Colony, the Lotos Club Foundation and Cave Canem.</h4>

Gregory Pardlo

Deborah Paredez is the author of the poetry volumes, Year of the Dog and This Side of Skin, and the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory. She is a Co-Founder of CantoMundo, a national organization for Latinx poets. She lives in New York City where she teaches creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University.

Deborah Paredez

<h4>Sarah Blake lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and son. She is the author of Mr. West, an unauthorized lyric biography of Kanye West, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press in Spring 2015. Her poems have appeared in Boston Review, The Threepenny Review, The Awl, and elsewhere. She was awarded an NEA fellowship for poetry in 2013, and she’s Assistant Editor at Saturnalia Books and co-founder of Submittrs.</h4>

Sarah Blake

<h4>Ross&nbsp;Gay's is a poet. His most recent book of poetry is Bringing the Shovel Down (U of Pitt Press). &nbsp;He's in the garden.</h4>

Ross Gay

<h4>Jennifer L. Grotz is the author of two books of poems, most recently&nbsp;The Needle,&nbsp;and a book of translations from the French of Patrice de La Tour du Pin&rsquo;s&nbsp;The Psalms of All My Days.&nbsp;She teaches at the University of Rochester, and serves as the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers&rsquo; Conference.</h4>

Jennifer L. Grotz

We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 2)

Stephanie Burt is professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, among them After Callimachus; Advice from the Lights, an NEA Big Read selection; and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems. She lives in Belmont, Massachusetts, with her partner, two kids, too many X-Men comics, and two astonishing cats.

Stephanie Burt

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