Burt Kimmelman

Distinguished Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Education
Ph.D.; City University of New York; 1991
M.A.; Hunter College; 1987
B.A.; SUNY College at Cortland; 1983
Website
http://web.njit.edu/~kimmelma
2026 Fall Courses
HSS 404 - THE PULSE OF SHORT FICTION
Past Courses
HSS 403: HUMANITIES SENIOR SEMINAR - LITERATURE
HSS 403: LIT SEM:
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ART, AESTHETICS AND MODERN TECHNOLOGY
HSS 403: LIT SEM: COMMUNICATION AND THE ARTS
HSS 403: LIT SEM: COMMUNICATIONS AND THE ARTS: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REAL?
HSS 403: LIT SEM: LITERATURE OF AMERICAN SLAVERY & ITS LEGACY
HSS 403: LIT SEM: ROMANCE IN THE WESTERN MIDDLE AGES
HSS 403: LIT SEM: THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN SLAVERY AND ITS LEGACY
HSS 403: LIT SEM:AMERICAN SLAVERY AND ITS LEGACY
HSS 403: LIT SEM:LITERARY JOURNALISM
Research Interests
Burt Kimmelman is a poet, literary scholar and critic, editor, and personal essayist. His writings are concerned with modern and postmodern American poetry, as well as later medieval European literature generally. Along with some memoir, he has also published commentary on art and architecture. At present, he is writing about contemporary avant-garde poetry and art, and his collection of conversations about the affinity between art and poetry is nearing completion. Still in development is a prose meditation on Marcel Proust’s conception of the present and how that has influenced contemporary writers.
Other
""Everything's in flux: On Jeanne Heuving's 'Indigo Angel' [Review Essay] on Indigo Angel by Jeanne Heuving (2023)],""
Jacket2, August, 2024.
"Birds and Trees [5 poems: "Start of Spring," Mid-April Evening, Morning, Late November""
Wallace Stevens Journal, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
""The New American Poetry, Personism, and the Cold War [Review Essay on The New American Poetry and Cold War Nationalism by Stephan Delbos (2021)]," "
Journal of Modern Literature, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2023.
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The Wallace Stevens Journal, September, 2023.
""aurora borealis" and "July Morning, Lake Aeroflex," Marsh Hawk Review (Spring 2022), https://marshhawkpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Marsh_Hawk_Review_Spring-2022.pdf"
Marsh Hawk Review, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2022.
""aurora borealis" and "July Morning, Lake Aeroflex," "
Marsh Hawk Review, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2022.
Book Review
""Maureen Owen's and Barbara Henning's Poets on the Road," "
Pedestal, March, 2024.
""Robert Vas Dias' Words Explore the Fact of Things [Review of Poetics of a Still Life: A Collage by Robert Vas Dias]," "
Hypereallergic, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2021.
""Digital Creation [Review of How the Universe Is Made by Stephanie Strickland]" "
American Book Review, August, 2021.
"Basil King, Disparate Beasts Part 2"
Marsh Hawk Review, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2021.
"Edward Foster, A Looking-Glass for Traytors "
Marsh Hawk Review, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2021.
"Eileen Tabios, The Intervention of the Hay(na)ku: Selected Tercets"
Marsh Hawk Review, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2021.
Essay
""Empty Mirror" (review essay of Rearview Mirror by Charles Borkhuis, Restless Messengers (February 2023)"
Restless Messengers (February 2023):, February, 2023.
""Eye Am a Camera: Murat Nemet-Nejat's Later Writings," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (March 2022), https://www.talisman46.com/kimmelman.html"
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (March 2022), https://www.talisman46.com/kimmelman.html, March, 2022.
"Eye Am a Camera: Murat Nemet-Nejat's Later Writings," "
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, March, 2022.
""Susan Lewis' Sublimations," Rain Taxi 27.4 (Winter 2022): pp. 42-44;"
Rain Taxi, January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2022.
""Virginia Woolf and la recherche du modernisme proustien: Marcel Proust in La Belle Ipoque, the Great War, and After," "
Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 49, February, 2021.
Book
Burt J. Kimmelman. "Steeple at Sunrise: New Poems." 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. "Zero Point Poiesis: George Quasha's Axial Art." 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. "Editor and Introduction, and chapter." 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. "Visible at Dusk: Selected Essays of Burt Kimmelman." 2021.
Chapter
Burt J. Kimmelman. "George Quasha's Linear Music," Zero Point Poeisis: George Quasha's Axial Art, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Aporia, 2022." "George Quasha's Axial Art, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Aporia, 2022," 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. "Introduction." "Introduction," Zero Point Poeisis: George Quasha's Axial Art, Ed. Burt Kimmelman, New York: Aporia, 2022," 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. "George Quasha's Linear Music"." "Zero Point Poeisis: George Quasha's Axial Art," 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. ""Introduction"." "Introduction," Zero Point Poeisis: George Quasha's Axial Art," 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. ""My Tutelage"." "On Becoming a Poet: 25 Original Essays and Interviews," 2022.
Burt J. Kimmelman. ""To Love Too Much: Norman Finkelstein and the Problem of Inscription"." "Where the Wanting Leads Us: Reading the Poetry of Norman Finkelstein," 2021.
Journal Article
Burt J. Kimmelman. 2021. "Editor, Prose Section of Marsh Hawk Review." Marsh Hawk Review.
Burt J. Kimmelman. 2021. ""Virginia Woolf and la recherche du modernisme proustien: Marcel Proust in La Belle Époque, the Great War, and After"." Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, no. 49.
Burt J. Kimmelman. 2021. "“Kent Johnson's Disguised Pronunciamento” ." B O D Y.