SUPER GAY POEMS
A celebration of queer poetry by the acclaimed critic and beloved Harvard professor Stephanie Burt.
To give, treasure, and inspire—a groundbreaking anthology that brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. This extraordinary collection is a celebration of queer liberation and its sometimes fragile, sometimes ebullient flourishing across the world.
“To read a poem is to imagine a life, whether or not it’s a life that is or could be yours. Lives—especially lives that are, or have been, oppressed, or erased—deserve to be seen and heard.”
From the Introduction to Super Gay Poems | Keep Reading »
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Stephanie Burt
Stephanie Burt is the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism, including Super Gay Poems and Don’t Read Poetry. A past judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she serves as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Raritan, and other publications. She is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University.
ESSAYS & ARTICLES
NEW YORK TIMES
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NEW YORK TIMES
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
In a new book, the cultural critic Maya Phillips explores the impact and evolution of nerd culture, especially in her own life.
VANITY FAIR
Professor Stephanie Burt shares what she learned about the singer’s stardom, relatability, and her own course at a college famous for being famous.