Jan Schreiber was Poet Laureate of Brookline, Massachusetts from 2015 to 2017. His books of poetry include Digressions (1970), Wily Apparitions (1992), Bell Buoys (1998), Peccadilloes (2014), and Bay Leaves (2019). A collection of his criticism, Sparring with the Sun, was published in 2014, and a new one, Breath Lines, will come out in 2025. His translations of The Poems of Paul Valéry appeared in 2021. An advisory editor of Think journal, he teaches in the BOLLI program at Brandeis University and runs The Critical Path, an annual symposium on poetry criticism.