Jan Schreiber

Jan Schreiber was Poet Laureate of Brookline, Massachusetts from 2015 to 2017. His books include Digressions (1970), Wily Apparitions (1992), Bell Buoys (1998), Peccadilloes (2014), and Bay Leaves (2019), as well as The Poems of Paul Valéry (2021), translations in a bilingual edition. Some of his criticism is collected in Sparring with the Sun (2013). He teaches in the BOLLI program at Brandeis University and runs the annual Critical Path Symposium on poetry criticism.