Please Join Porter Square Books and PEN/New England for Stephen Burt at Upstairs on the Square.
Stephen Burt is a literary critic who teaches at Harvard University. Burt's most recent book, Close Calls with Nonsense,
was a 2009 National Book Critics Circle finalist. Burt writes books
about poetry, essays on other people's poems, books of his own poems,
and shorter pieces about poems, poets, poetry, comics, science-fiction
writers, political controversies, obscure pop groups, and the WNBA.
Please note: this is an off-site event to be held at Upstairs on the Square in Cambridge, MA.
PEN (Poets/Playwrights,
Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of
published authors, aspiring writers, and all who love the written
word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England
and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is a branch of
PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest
international literary organization and also the oldest human rights
organization in the world.
