Burt Kimmelman

Jonathan Curley (College of New Jersey)

Ed. by Nick Selby, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 6 May 1947
Activity 1973-ongoing

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Literary Critic/ Historian
Poet

Resources

Born in Broolyn, New York on May 6, 1947 and currently residing in Maplewood, New Jersey, Burt Kimmelman is a highly acclaimed American poet, especially prolific in the past two decades and a participant in countless poetry readings internationally. The author of four poetry collections—Musaics (1992; Spuyten Duyvil), The Point at Cape May (2002; Marshhawk Press), Somehow (2005; Marshhawk Press), and As If Free (2009; Talisman House)—Kimmelman is a descendant of the Objectivists and their concentration on unvarnished detail and also William Bronk, a lapidary, philosophical

American experimentalist of whom Kimmelman has written a critical study, The Winter Mind: William Bronk and American Letters (1998). Recognized as a significant critic of contemporary poetry, he has also widely written in Medieval Studies, and currently holds the Chair of the Humanities Department at New Jersey Institute of...

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Citation: Curley, Jonathan. "Burt Kimmelman". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 May 2009 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=12284, accessed 09 June 2026.]