Kurt Heinzelman co-founded The Poetry Miscellany and Bat City Review. A scholar of Poetry and Poetics, with a speciality in British Romanticism, he has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize and was twice a finalist for the Poetry Book of the Year from the Texas Institute of Letters (The Halfway Tree and Black Butterflies). His third book, The Names They Found There, was Notable Book of the Year by Poetry International; his latest collections are Intimacies & Other Devices (2013) and Whatever You May Say (2017). He has served as Executive Curator of the Ransom Center and as Director of Education at the Blanton Museum. An Honorary Professor at Swansea University (Wales), he has been since 2005 a judge of the International Dylan Thomas Prize.
Kurt Heinzelman
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