{"id":654412,"date":"2010-02-03T18:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=36809"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:12:52","slug":"stephen-burt-named-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654412","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Burt named National Book Critics Circle Award finalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of English Stephen Burt has been named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in Criticism for his book \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.closecallswithnonsense.com\/\">Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry<\/a>.\u201d The announcement was made on Jan. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Burt, who is a poet himself, has been lauded as one of poetry\u2019s freshest voices. He has written several books of poetry, which include \u201cParallel Play,\u201d \u201cPopular Music,\u201d and \u201cShot Clocks: Poems for the WNBA.\u201d Other books include \u201cSomething Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler,\u201d \u201cThe Forms of Youth: Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence,\u201d \u201cRandall Jarrell and His Age,\u201d and \u201cThe Art of the Sonnet,\u201d forthcoming in April.<\/p>\n<p>Burt is a frequent contributor to literary journals around the country, and his critical essays have been featured, most notably, in The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>The NBCC consists of more than 600 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Winners will be announced in a ceremony in New York City on March 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of English Stephen Burt has been named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award in Criticism for his book \u201cClose Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry.\u201d The announcement was made on Jan. 23. Burt, who is a poet himself, has been lauded as one of poetry\u2019s freshest voices. He has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Kf2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}