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The Poem is You

Stephen Burt, Professor of English, Harvard University

Event Details

Date
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Time
7:30 p.m.
Description
Looking back on THE POEM IS YOU: SIXTY CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POEMS AND HOW TO READ THEM (Harvard UP, 2016) and forward to a book in progress entitled DON'T READ POETRY (A BOOK ABOUT HOW TO READ POEMS), Stephen Burt will address the paradoxes and challenges of writing for a reading public; how and why there may be more than one of them; and what poetry critics now can hope to do.
Cost
Free

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