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.

Event detail

Event start
12. 10. 2015 10:50
Konec události
2. 10. 2015 12:20
Venue
Faculty of Arts, Jan Palach Square, Prague 1 (room 111)
Website
https://www.facebook.com/events/1050749631615398/
Organizing Institution
Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
Event type
Lecture