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Burt Kimmelman | |
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Born | Burt Joseph Kimmelman May 5, 1947 New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Poet, scholar |
Education | State University of New York at Cortland (BA) City University of New York (MA, PhD) |
Spouse | Diane Simmons |
Children | 1 |
Burt Joseph Kimmelman (born May 5, 1947) [1] [2] is an American poet and scholar.
Born and raised in New York City after World War Two, Burt Kimmelman has published eleven collections of poetry. His poetry is often anthologized and was featured on The Writer's Almanac radio program. [3]
He is also the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (1998) [4] and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (1996). [5]
He is a distinguished professor of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey where he teaches literary and cultural studies.
His academic interests include modern and postmodern American poetry and the development of the poetics of authorship in medieval Europe. As a poet, he works within the tradition of William Carlos Williams. [6]
Kimmelman received a PhD in English Literature from the City University of New York; a certificate in interdisciplinary medieval studies from the City University of New York; a M.A. in English Literature from Hunter College, City University of New York; and a B.A. in English Literature from the State University of New York at Cortland. He is married to the writer Diane Simmons.