B. 1947

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Burt Kimmelman has published nine collections of poetry: Abandoned Angel (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016) Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2013 (BlazeVOX [books]), The Way We Live (Dos Madres Press, 2011), As If Free (Talisman House, Publishers, 2009), There Are Words (Dos Madres Press, 2007), Somehow (Marsh Hawk Press, 2005), The Pond at Cape May Point (Marsh Hawk Press, 2002), a collaboration with the painter Fred Caruso, First Life (Jensen/Daniels Publishing, 2000), and Musaics (Sputyen Duyvil Press, 1992).

Kimmelman has also published a number of books of literary criticism, including The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998), and scores of essays on medieval, modern, or contemporary poetry. In the 1980s and 1990s he was senior editor of the now-defunct Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. Some interviews of Kimmelman are available online: with Tom Fink in Jacket 40 (text), and with George Spencer at Poetry Thin Air (video).

Kimmelman teaches literary and cultural studies at New Jersey Institute of Technology.