Burt Kimmelman

Burt Joseph Kimmelman (born May 5, 1947) 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.

He has been the subject of a number of published interviews.

He is also the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (1998) and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona (1996).

In addition, he has published a number of edited or co-edited volumes of literary criticism, a collection of selected essays, as well as more than a hundred articles, most of them on literature.

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.

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.

They moved to Brussels in 2014, while he taught at the University of Ghent, and moved back to New Jersey that summer.

In the winter and spring of 2018, they resided in Prague, while Simmons taught at the University of Pardubice.