Stephen Burt (Harvard University): “Is American Poetry Still a Thing?”

Professor Stephen Burt is co-editor of the recent Cambridge History of American Poetry (2015), and author of Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009) and The Art of the Sonnet (2011). The foremost poetry critic in the United States, he reviews regularly for a range of outlets. His lecture “Why People Need Poetry” was a TED talk in 2013.

A poet also, Stephen Burt, will give a reading on Sunday, 11 October 2015, at 7.30 pm at (A)VOID, Náplavka.