Of Poetry Podcast

A conversation with Stephanie Burt, author of We Are Mermaids (Graywolf Press, 2022).

Show Notes

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). 

More reading and viewing recommendations from this episode:

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
Spinning by Tillie Walden
Jem and the Holograms (Thompson and Campbell)
The Fire Never Goes Out ND Stevens
She-Ra

What is Of Poetry Podcast?

Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.