Stephanie Burt is professor of English at Harvard and the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, most recently Don’t Read Poetry (Basic, 2019). These imitations of Callimachus come from her collection, After Callimachus, published by Princeton University Press this spring.
July/Aug 2020
Epigram 57; Epigram 58
An imitation of Callimachus’s epigrams These poems adapt, very liberally, epigrams by Callimachus, who lived and wrote in Greek, in Alexandria, during the second century BCE. Admired for his poetry […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2020
Epigram 62
Michaela, you didn’t seem to experience more than a little of our blowout last night. What happened? Are you OK? You know I’m a friend you can trust. Honestly you […]
Poetry
July/Aug 2020
Epigram 6
I’m an old nautilus egg-case. I make a good toy, or conversation- piece, for Arsinoë, as I did for Marianne, who let me circulate. When there was wind I rode […]
Nature’s Nature 2020
May/June 2020
Iambi IV / 194
An Imitation of Callimachus’ Iambi Once on the hill of Tmolus a laurel and an olive got into a fight, or rather the laurel decided to pick on the olive, […]