{"id":8,"count":4,"description":"Stephanie Burt\u00a0is a poet, literary critic, and Harvard University professor. Her essay collection <em>Close Calls with Nonsense<\/em>\u00a0was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other works include <em>Taylor's Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift<\/em>; <em>We Are Mermaids<\/em>; <em>Advice from the Lights<\/em>; <em>The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them<\/em>;\u00a0<em>The Art of the Sonnet<\/em>; <em>Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler<\/em>; <em>The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry<\/em>; <em>Parallel Play: Poems<\/em>; <em>Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Randall Jarrell and His Age<\/em>. Her writing has appeared in the <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>, <em>the London Review of Books<\/em>, <em>the Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, <em>The Believer<\/em>, and <em>Boston Review<\/em>.","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/section\/fall2025\/stephanieburt\/","name":"Stephanie Burt","slug":"stephanieburt","taxonomy":"section","parent":3,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/section"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/3"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltreadingseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item?section=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}