Eric Weiskott

Eric Weiskott grew up in Greenport, New York, on the east end of Long Island. He teaches poetry and poetics at Boston College, with a focus on the 14th and 21st centuries.

Weiskott is the author of the poetry chapbook Chanties: An American Dream (Bottlecap Press, 2023) and the scholarly book Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350–1650 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). His poems appear in Fence, the Texas Review, and Exacting Clam.

Weiskott earned a PhD in English from Yale University and lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.