Sidney Burris

Professor, critic, and poet Sidney Burris earned his BA in classical studies at Duke University and his PhD in English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of three collections of poetry, What Light He Saw I Cannot Say (LSU Press, 2021), Doing Lucretius (LSU Press, 2000), and A Day at the Races (University of Utah Press, 1989), as well as a book of criticism, The Poetry of Resistance (Ohio University Press, 1990). His poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry magazine, Kenyon Review, Georgia Review, Five Points, and AGNI.

Burris has taught for many years at the University of Arkansas, where he served as director of the Fulbright College Honors Program for 23 years. He is director of the TEXT Program, an oral-history project chronicling the lives of Tibetans in exile.