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Oct 22, Wednesday: 3pm Q&A at Stratford Heights Grill, 8pm poetry reading in 427 ERC Robert Pinsky, United States Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000, is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Gulf Music: Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2007); Jersey Rain (2000); and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996), which received the 1997 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize nominee. He is also the author of several prose works, including The Life of David (Schocken, 2006); Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry (2002); and The Sounds of Poetry (1998), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Additionally, Pinsky has published two acclaimed works of traslation: The Inferno of Dante (1994), which was a Book-of-the-Month-Club Editor's Choice, and received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award; and The Separate Notebooks by Czeslaw Milosz (with Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass). His
honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, both the William Carlos Williams Award and the Shelley Memorial prize from the Poetry Society of America, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He is currently poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate, and he teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University. Contact: Don Bogen.
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