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Stephanie Burt will read from her poetry collections, We Are Mermaids and For All Mutants, as well as from other work. There will be a brief question and answer period and book-signing with the poet following the reading.This reading is free and open to the public. Books will be sold at the reading by the Plymouth State University Barnes & Noble Bookstore. The poet will be available to sign them after the reading.
Described by the New York Times as “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation,” Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, professor, and author of numerous books, including critical books on poetry and four poetry collections. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The poems in her most recent collection, We Are Mermaids (Graywolf, 2022), were described by Madeleine Wattenberg for The Georgia Review as “Oriented toward a queer futurity’s potential, these poems rarely land in certainty. Burt reminds us that the surface reflects to the observer just one story, one script, and when we dip below what initially appears, we meet numerous realms and ways of being as mysterious and lovely as the unknown that flourishes on the ocean floor.” Burt’s recent edited collection Super Gay Poems (Harvard University Press, 2025) is an anthology of post-Stonewall queer poetry that exemplifies what Rajiv Mohabir calls “a raucous rainbow flag from our contributions—the contributions of fags, dykes, enbys, trans folk, and queers—to poetry in the past four decades.”
The recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Believer, and the Boston Review.
Her other works include Advice from the Lights: Poems (Graywolf, 2017); Don’t Read Poetry (Basic Books, 2019); The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Harvard UP, 2016); Belmont (2013); The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard University Press, 2010); Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler (University of Virginia Press, 2009); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry (Columbia University Press, 2007); Parallel Play: Poems (Graywolf, 2006); Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (University Press, 2005); Randall Jarrell and His Age (Columbia University Press, 2002); and Popular Music (Center for Literary Publishing, 1999).
Burt grew up around Washington, DC, and received an A.B. from Harvard in 1994 and a Ph.D. in English from Yale in 2000. She served as co-Poetry Editor for The Nation from 2017-2020. Currently, she is a professor of English at Harvard University.
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Silver Center for the Arts, 15 Summer St, Plymouth, NH 03264-1568, United States
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