Stephen Burt is a Contributing Reviewer of the Believer.

• March/April 2013: Review of Statesman of Ten Years Ago’s Chris Van Hollen
  Stephen Burt on a statesman of ten years ago
• February 2013: Review of Brent Cunningham’s Journey to the Sun
  Stephen Burt on Brent Cunningham
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  November/December 2012: Review of James Bridle et al.’s The New Aesthetic
  Stephen Burt on the New Aesthetic
• October 2012: Review of Darcie Dennigan’s “Madame X”
  Stephen Burt on Darcie Dennigan
• June 2012: Review of Manual’s Gadabout TM 1050 Cudworth-Hooper Owner’s Manual
  Stephen Burt on time machines
• October 2011: Review of Littleton, New Hampshire’s The Piano Project
• October 2011: Review of Harmony Holiday’s Negro League Baseball
• June 2011: Review of Dr. Seuss’s Fox in Socks
• May 2011: Review of Version 4.0’s Unisex Omnisexual Purity Test
• February 2011: Review of H. L. Hix’s First Fire, Then Birds
• January 2011: Review of Molly Bendall’s Under the Quick
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  October 2010: Review of Aaron Kunin’s The Sore Throat & Other Poems
• September 2010: Review of Melissa Range’s Horse and Rider
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  June 2010: Review of Karen Weiser’s To Light Out
• May 2010: Review of David Baker’s Never-Ending Birds
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  October 2009: Review of Liz Waldner’s Trust
• September 2009: Review of Robert Minhinnick’s King Driftwood
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  June 2009: Review of Gary Copeland Lilley’s Alpha Zulu
• February 2009: Review of Robyn Schiff’s Revolver
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  January 2009: Review of Jordan Scott’s Blert
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  September 2008: Review of Raymond McDaniel’s Saltwater Empire
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  June 2008: Review of Jenny Browne’s The Second Reason
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  May 2008: Review of Juliana Spahr’s The Transformation
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  February 2008: Review of Jasper Bernes’s Starsdown
• November/December 2007: Review of Noah Eli Gordon’s A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow
• October 2007: Review of Mary Dalton’s Red Ledger
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  September 2007: Review of Elizabeth Treadwell’s Birds and Fancies
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  April 2007: Review of Katie Degentesh’s The Anger Scale
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  February 2007: Review of Jon Woodward’s Rain
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  December 2006/January 2007: Review of Tracy Philpot’s Original White Animals
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  October 2006: Review of Amanda Nadelberg’s Isa the Truck Named Isadore
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  September 2006: Review of Claire Bateman’s Leap
• August 2006: Review of Ander Monson’s Vacationland
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  March 2006: Review of Jennifer Michael Hecht’s Funny
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  February 2006: Review of Ange Mlinko’s Starred Wire
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  August 2005: Review of Angie Estes’s Chez Nous
• May 2005: Welcome to the Almost Cult-Like Fan-World of American Women’s Pro Basketball
  If an NBA fan is someone who loves basketball, why must a WNBA fan be someone who loves women’s sports?
• May 2005: Review of Donald Revell’s Pennyweight Windows
• April 2005: “I Do Not Expect You to Like It”
  The passionate, tormented, propulsive, exhilarating, stagy, ambitious, profound, intuitive, and New Zealish poetry of James K. Baxter.
• March 2005: Review of Christopher Nealon’s The Joyous Age
• February 2005: Review of Lisa Robertson’s Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
• July 2004: Review of Rae Armantrout’s Up to Speed
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  May 2004: Close Calls with Nonsense
  The reader of modernist poetry wonders: where to go from here? A careful introduction to contemporary poetry reminds us how to read.