Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard. Her books include the poetry collection We Are Mermaids, After Callimachus, and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems.

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  1. The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich

    Praised by W. H. Auden as neat and modest, she vowed to be passionate and radical instead.

    Illustration of Adrienne Rich
    Illustration by Celina Pereira; photographs by Bettmann; Richard Lautens / Toronto Star / Getty