Americans' Favorite Poems by Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)

His landmark, best-selling translation of The Inferno of Dante received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Howard Morton Landon Prize for translation. In 2013 WW Norton published Singing School: Learning to Read (and Write) Poetry by Studying with the Masters, a unique combination anthology, personal essay, and textbook. Other poetry collections include Selected Poems (FSG, 2011), Gulf Music (FSG, 2007), and Jersey Rain (FSG, 2001).

His most recent poetry collection, At the Foundling Hospital, was published in 2016 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His anthology The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. In 2015 the university named him a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed on senior faculty members who are actively involved in teaching, research, scholarship, and university civic life.Įlegant and tough, vividly imaginative, Robert Pinsky’s poems have earned praise for their wild musical energy and range. Pinsky is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate writing program at Boston University. Known worldwide, Pinsky’s work has earned him the PEN/Voelcker Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, Italy’s Premio Capri, the Korean Manhae Award, and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago, among other accolades. Throughout his career, Pinsky has been dedicated to identifying and invigorating poetry’s place in the world.

His first two terms as United States Poet Laureate were marked by such visible dynamism-and such national enthusiasm in response-that the Library of Congress appointed him to an unprecedented third term. Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. US Poet Laureate, founder of the Favorite Poem Project

Americans' Favorite Poems by Favorite Poem Project (U. S.)