STEPHEN BURT is Professor of English at Harvard. His books include Why I Am Not a Toddler and Other Poems by Cooper Bennett Burt (Age One), Close Calls with Nonsense, and Parallel Play. Another book of his own poems, Belmont, will appear in spring 2013.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Wishes That We Harbor: The Poems of Max Ritvo and Heather Hartley
Stephen Burt considers “Four Reincarnations” by Max Ritvo and “Adult Swim” by Heather Hartley....
It’s Suddenly Understandable: On Aphorism, Lyric, and Experiment
Stephen Burt explains the poetry of aphorism in the work of contemporary poets Kay Ryan and Andrew Maxwell....
Death and Revelations
On 'The Infinitesimals' by Laura Kasischke...
The Body of the Poem: On Transgender Poetry
What is transgender poetry? A review of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, an anthology edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson....
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 2)
On Table Tennis and Track & Field...
