Burt Kimmelman

Burt Joseph Kimmelman (born May 5, 1947)[1][2] is an American poet and scholar.

Life and work

Born and raised in New York City after World War Two, Burt Kimmelman has published eight collections of poetry. His poetry is often anthologized and has been featured on The Writer's Almanac radio program, recited by Garrison Keillor. He has been the subject of a number of published interviews.

He is also the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (1998) and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (1996). In addition, he edited The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (2005) and co-edited The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry (2007), has co-edited various other volumes of literary criticism, and has published more than a hundred articles on medieval, modern, or contemporary poetry.

He is a professor of English in the Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, where he teaches literary and cultural studies.

He is noted for his astute criticism of modern and postmodern American poetry and the development of the poetics of authorship in medieval Europe and is often viewed as a poet working within the tradition of William Carlos Williams.

Kimmelman received a PhD in English Literature from the City University of New York; a certificate in interdisciplinary medieval studies from the City University of New York; a M.A. in English Literature from Hunter College, City University of New York; and a B.A. in English Literature from the State University of New York at Cortland.

He recently moved to Belgium to teach at Ghent University. He moved back to New Jersey a year later.

Works

Poetry collections

Critical Studies

Notes

  1. ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
  2. ↑ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) .

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