Of Poetry Podcast Stephanie Burt (Of Mermaids, Punctuation, and Queer Community Formation)
Read: "Whale Watch" at Turbine
Purchase: We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022)
Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poems and literary criticism, most recently WE ARE MERMAIDS (Graywolf, 2022), AFTER CALLIMACHUS: Poems and Translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and DON'T READ POETRY: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). In addition to poetry things, she writes about trans stuff and pop music and comic book superheroes for Comicsxf.com, the New Yorker and other fun venues. Her podcast about tabletop role-playing games is Team-Up Moves (teamupmoves.com).
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