Poetry by the Sea is thrilled to welcome Stephanie Burt as the Keynote speaker for our Tenth Anniversary Conference. The conference will run from Tuesday May 27th to Friday May 30th, 2025, and the Keynote reading will take place on Wednesday, May 28th following the banquet. Books will be available for sale before and after the Keynote, and you are also welcome to bring books you already own for a brief signing after the event. We look forward to opening the registration portal in early January 2025; meanwhile, we are grateful for your continued support.
Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor with numerous published books, including critical books on poetry and four poetry collections. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The poems in her most recent collection, We Are Mermaids (Graywolf, 2022), was described by Madeleine Wattenberg for The Georgia Review as “Oriented toward a queer futurity’s potential, these poems rarely land in certainty. Burt reminds us that the surface reflects to the observer just one story, one script, and when we dip below what initially appears, we meet numerous realms and ways of being as mysterious and lovely as the unknown that flourishes on the ocean floor.”
