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. His criticism is collected in Sparring with the Sun (2013) and in his forthcoming book Breath Lines: How Poems Work and Why They Matter (LSU Press, May 2025). He teaches in the BOLLI program at Brandeis University and runs the annual Critical Path Symposium on poetry criticism.