Stephanie Burt

Biography

Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard. Her books include The Art of the Sonnet, with David Mikics (Harvard, 2010), Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf, 2009), Parallel Play: Poems (Graywolf, 2006), and Randall Jarrell and His Age (Columbia, 2002).

See Work

POETRY / Winter 2014

Black Raspberry Canes

By Stephanie Burt

Nobody, my father said, could get so many
scrapes and scratches accidentally:
without them I probably would not have liked it so much.

POETRY / Winter 2014

A Nickel on Top of a Penny

By Stephanie Burt

I am going to disappear in Belmont,
after taking a walk in intermittent rain.
I will vanish one day in Belmont—don’t correct me—

MEMOIR / Fall 2012

My Life as a Girl

By Stephanie Burt

I’m a man, but I like dressing up as a woman, in women’s clothes, wearing lipstick and bracelets and bright rings and women’s shoes.

ESSAYS / Spring 2012

David Caplan at Tiferes Bachurim

By Stephanie Burt

These remarkable poems blend spiritual unease with religious confidence, an investigator’s fascinated spirit with a sense that the poet has almost—but not quite— come home. David Caplan reacts to what he saw, to what he heard, and to what...