Jan Schreiber

The Poems of Paul Valéry (translations of the complete poems by Paul Valéry, with an introduction and afterword), Cambridge Scholars, 2021

Bay Leaves, American Fork, Utah: Kelsay Books, 2019

In 2015 he was named Poet Laureate for the town of Brookline, Massachusetts. He serves as advisory editor for Think, a magazine of poetry, fiction, and essays.

Peccadilloes, Hemet, California: White Violet Press, 2014

Sparring With the Sun: Poets and the Ways We Think about Poetry in the Late Days of Modernism, Champaign, Ill.: Antilever Press, 2013

Since 2010 Schreiber has been closely involved in the Symposium on Poetry Criticism, which he co-founded, held annually at Western State Colorado University as part of its Writing the Rockies literary conference.

Beginning in 2004 Schreiber began writing for the on-line journal Contemporary Poetry Review, for which he produced numerous critical articles, some on individual poets, some on influential critics and scholars, and some on the development of the poetic canon. Many of these essays later appeared in his book Sparring with the Sun.

Sketch of a Serpent (translations of poems by Paul Valéry), Robert Barth, 1986

A Stroke upon the Sea (translations of poems by Walther von der Vogelweide), Aliquando Press, 1982

Jan Schreiber (born 1941) is an American poet, translator, and literary critic who has been part of the renascence of formal poetry that began in the late twentieth century. He is the author of five books of verse, two books of verse translation and one book of literary criticism. He was a co-founder of the literary magazine, Canto: Review of the Arts, which flourished in the 1970s, and as a literary editor he launched the poetry chapbook series at the Godine Press. He is a recipient of the Carey Thomas Award for creative publishing.