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).
His academic interests include modern and postmodern American poetry and the development of the poetics of authorship in medieval Europe.