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Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University, is author of several books, most recently the poetry collection Belmont.

Articles

Poetry

my anonymous maker or makers were not
out to fashion amphorae, or ways to store oil, so much
as shaping vessels for the awkward soul.

Stephanie Burt
Poetry
What would it be like to belong 
entirely in your own body, or in your own country, or at 
your own address?
Stephanie Burt

No poet captures the feeling of political failure—of having lost an unfair fight—like W. B. Yeats.

Stephanie Burt
Stephen Burt talks with Monica Youn about her book ‘Blackacre,’ longlisted for the National Book Award.
Stephanie Burt, Monica Youn

Poetry is offering new candor about the ways men care for their children.

Stephanie Burt

The enduring reach of a rural poet.

Stephanie Burt
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Nearly Baroque poets want art that puts excess, invention, and ornament first.
Stephanie Burt
Poetry
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Poetry
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Poetry
Stephanie Burt

Few texts have worked as hard as Craig Dworkin’s to remind us that what we make of them depends on prior frames, on previous texts.

Stephanie Burt

Forum Responses

So many binaries circulate in and around contemporary poems.
Stephanie Burt

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