Stephen Burt is a transgender poet, literary critic, and an English professor at Harvard University who also goes by Steph and Stephanie. Burt's works of criticism include The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them; Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Art of the Sonnet, written with David Mikics; The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence; Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden, written with Hannah Brooks-Motl; and Randall Jarrell and His Age. More event info: http://lectures.org/season/poetry_series.php?id=477 This event is sponsored by the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics at the University of Washington at Bothell. Representatives from the MFA program will be tabling before and after the event. Register for the tabling HERE>> |