Robert Pinsky-American Poet
Robert Pinsky will deliver a talk about American poetry and writing poetry.
Location
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
Sponsored by
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Audience
Public
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator.
He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Selected Poems; Gulf Music: Poems; Jersey Rain; and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 which received the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize nominee.
His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, including a collection of poems by Czesław Miłosz and Dante Alighieri.
From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Boston University and is the poetry editor at Slate.
Location
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building
Sponsored by
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Audience
Public
