About Kirt

Kirt took off on his first solo walk (completely naked) at age two and managed to get to the end of the street before being intercepted. He began to write at age twelve. The two activities came together when he moved to the Back Bay of Boston at age thirty and began to write poems on his walks.

This continued with his move to South Amherst and his walks in the hills and fields of the Holyoke Range, where the pleasures of walking intensified with the landscape. It was on one of these walks that the idea for Thinking On Both Feet was born.

Kirt’s work includes poems, novels, children’s stories and journals and has appeared in Ms., Midstream, Stuff (The Boston Phoenix), Exquisite Corpse, notus new writing, Modern Haiku, Longhouse, Poet Lore, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Hartford Courant, Paramour, aspen leaves, The Boston Monthly, The Ardis Anthology of New American Poetry, and Blood To Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust.

His poetry is among the work of American and British poets examined in Susan Gubar’s critical study, Poetry After Auschwitz.

Kirt’s two published books of poems, Winter Light and Soldiers of Fortune, are available for sale here. His novels The Wolf Moon and The Man Who Had Two Hearts, and the book about his conversion to Judaism, Diary of a Conversion: A Love Story, may soon be available for sale here as well.