Stephanie Burt

Stephanie Burt is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard. Her books of criticism and poetry include Taylor’s Version: The Musical and Poetic Genius of Taylor Swift (Basic, 2025), We Are Mermaids (Graywolf, 2022), and After Callimachus (Princeton University Press, 2020). Her next book of poems, Read the Room, will be published by Graywolf in June 2027. 

Stephanie Burt

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Against Winning

For fewer but more perfect blooms, experts say to prune the buds. —Sara Wainscott, Insecurity Systems   The ideas in this essay have not led me to quit or walk […]

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