Burt Kimmelman’s readership includes poets and others who read poetry closely. They’re drawn to his poems’ precision, understatement, and vivid realizations of places (e.g., in a city) and of nature.

“In Burt Kimmelman’s poems, form calls deeply to form, as though the works lifted one to the very brim of language where one could speak of a life caught whole.” –Michael Heller, American Poet