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	Robert Pinsky - The Cortland Review
		Robert Pinsky: After the initial feelings of pleasure at the honor and fear at the work (I knew how much energy Bob Hass and Rita Dove had expended), I mused a little about the title itself: I had always preferred "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress" as more dignified and nobly American.
		Robert Pinsky: The responses to the Favorite Poem Project have been various, enthusiastic and moving beyond expectation.
		Robert Pinsky: It was an accident, an assignment to do one Canto for a group project.
	www.cortlandreview.com /pinsky.htm (788 words)

	Pinsky, Robert Criticism and Essays
		Robert Pinsky's poetry is noted for its combination of vivid imagery and clear, discursive language that explores such themes as truth, the history of nations and individuals, and the transcendent aspects of simple acts.
		Pinsky's moral tone and mastery of poetic meter often are compared to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century English poets, and the insights conveyed in his analytical works on poetry have led critics to place him in the tradition of other poet-critics such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T. Eliot, and W. Auden.
		Pinsky is often praised for his grasp of traditional metrical forms and his ability to evoke timeless meaning within the strictures of contemporary idioms.
	www.enotes.com /poetry-criticism/pinsky-robert (583 words)

	Robert Pinsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Hass, who has been poet laureate for the last two years, says he is happy and honored to have served in the position, but he also admits that on May 1, his last day as laureate, he will be "delighted" to step aside.
		Pinsky was born in 1940 in Long Branch, a "decayed" beach town in New Jersey.
		Pinsky has written of himself as, "the one for whom it seems impossible/To tell a story straight." He has described his poetry as "discursive," meaning that his poems weave through a wide range of subjects before reaching their conclusion.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/books/reviews/04-97/PINSKY.html (2405 words)

	"Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry" By Robert Pinsky
		Pinsky's new book of essays is drawn from a series of lectures he delivered in 2001 at Princeton's University Center for Human Values.
		Pinsky argues that Americans suffer from countervailing yearnings -- for autonomy on the one hand (recoiling from the homogeneity of mass society) and unanimity on the other.
		This is a state Pinsky sees as: "a vicious, tribalized factionalism, the coming apart of civic fabrics through fragmentation, ranging from the tremendous, paranoid brutalities of ethnic cleansing and ruthless terrorism to the petty division of mass culture into niches.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030202pinsky0202fnp6.asp (700 words)

	Robert Pinsky ★ Steven Barclay Agency
		Robert Pinsky’s 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.
		Pinsky’s prose book The Life of David, is a lively retelling and examination of the David stories, narrating a wealth of legend as well as scripture.
		Robert Pinsky is also the winner of the Pen Voelcker Award, The William Carlos Williams Prize, the Lenore Marshall, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture’s 2006 Jewish Cultural Achievement Award in Literary Arts.
	www.barclayagency.com /pinsky.html (569 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Chat with Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
		Robert Pinsky: I just wrote a whole book--THE SOUNDS OF POETRY--to demonstrate that the distinction should not be between 'metrical' and 'free' but competent or attractive on the one hand and boring and unattractive on the other.
		Robert Pinsky: I hope that the MFA degree is not leading to a guild--to a you-must-be-one-of-us situation.
		Robert Pinsky: I don't mean to dismiss the problem, but WC Williams wrote great work in prose and verse, while raising a family and tending to a medical practice; Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens had full time jobs as librarian and insurance attorney, and Moore had many family duties.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /zforum/98/pinsky981130.htm (4166 words)

	Robert Pinsky
		One of Pinsky’s most popular poems is "The Shirt." which is interesting because Pinsky takes a simple object, as a shirt, and expands it to a poem to show that the shirt is more than a shirt.
		Then lastly, Pinsky writes about a fl South Carolina woman who is his shirts inspector, a good explanation of relationships between customers and workers, the shirt becomes a tool to show us a good history of that relationship.
		In the first two lines of the poem, Pinsky describes the setting where he found the bones, with the wakes from the ocean crashing on the shore of the beach.
	www.bsu.edu /web/gstrecker/PoetryProject/robertpinsky.htm (664 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Robert Pinsky
		Robert Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, in 1940.
		Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University, and in 1997 was named the United States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
		In Intervals: Robert Pinsky and Tom Sleigh in Conversation
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/200 (222 words)

	Millinneum Evening Guest Lecturer Robert Pinsky
		Born in 1940 in Long Branch, New Jersey, Professor Pinsky first had his imagination captured just by the way words sounded such as the train conductor's cry, `Passengers going to Hoboken, change trains at Summit." He developed a love of music as a saxophonist and his initial writing was more often songs than poetry.
		Professor Pinsky is renowned for his translation work, most notably The Inferno of Dante (1994) which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry, the Academy of American Poets' translation award, and was a Book-of-the-Month-Club Editor's Choice.
		Pinsky lives in Newton, Massachusetts with his wife Ellen Pinsky, a clinical psychologist.
	clinton4.nara.gov /Initiatives/Millennium/pinsky.html (404 words)

	Robert Pinsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The luncheon was also one of the few occasions in Pinsky's stupefyingly hectic three-year round of readings, talks, performances, commencement speeches (he's become the recipient of numerous honorary degrees), and countless other public appearances where his wife, Ellen Pinsky, a clinical psychologist, was able to be present.
		But Pinsky's most significantly visible work was the creation of the astonishing and poignant Favorite Poem Project, in which people from all over the country were invited to write and tell him why a particular poem was important to their lives (only professional poets were excluded).
		Poetry, for Pinsky, is also a search for order and meaning, as opposed to the arbitrariness of, for example, the alphabetical order he often fills his poems with.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/00/05/18/ROBERT_PINSKY.html (1188 words)

	Cape Cod Times: An interview with Robert Pinsky, poet laureate (November 7, 1999)
		But sound and words are synonymous to Robert Pinsky, who has instead become a major voice in modern poetry, bringing a new visibility to the post of poet laureate.
		Pinsky, whose work was influenced by jazz, rock and roll, baseball and the poetry of John Keats, T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson, was named the U.S. poet laureate in 1997.
		Pinsky, a part-time resident of Provincetown and teacher in the graduate writing program at Boston University, has spent his time in the post creating his Favorite Poem Project.
	www.capecodonline.com /year2000/pinsky07.htm (1214 words)

	BU.EDU : Creative Writing Department
		Robert Pinsky leads a poetry workshop each semster with students enrolled in the graduate writing program.
		Robert Pinsky is poetry editor for the online magazine Slate, and he reads poems as a contributor to public television’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
		Pinsky is co-editor of Americans’ Favorite Poems and Poems to Read, both anthologies that grew out of the Favorite Poem Project.
	www.bu.edu /writing/pinsky.html (371 words)

	Pinsky, Robert
		Abstract: Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000, was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, on October 20, 1940.
		Robert Pinsky was born on October 20, 1940, in Long Branch, New Jersey.
		Librarian of Congress James H. Billington appointed Robert Pinsky to be the ninth Poet Laureate and the country’s 39th Consultant in Poetry in 1997.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Pinsky__Robert.html (910 words)

	Robert Pinsky (by L. Proyect)
		Pinsky's closest kin in terms of thematic material would appear to be Alan Ginsberg.
		Pinsky is preoccupied with family and religious motifs, which are set against the backdrop of class-divided American society.
		The big difference between Ginsberg and Pinsky is that Pinsky operates within the stylistic parameters of the post-TS Eliot school.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/pinsky.htm (590 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Live Online
		Pinsky was poet laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000.
		Robert Pinsky: Yes-- the engineers helping the musicians-- that technological image is very important to me: we are not making a 19th century memorial or even a 20th century one, but a 21st century one.
		Robert Pinsky: As to the flag, and waving it, I guess it all depends upon how you wave it and at whom.
	discuss.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/zforum/02/r_magazine_pinsky090902.htm (2140 words)

	conversation with robert pinsky
		In this wide-ranging conversation, the former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will discuss his collaboration on an opera with Tod Machover of the Media Lab, his ongoing Favorite Poem Project, his ideas about poetry and democratic culture, and his recent prose book, The Life of David, an account of the biblical poet-king.
		Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000), is poetry editor of the online journal Slate and teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.
		PINSKY: I invited Americans to write to me with their favorite poems, poems that had inspired them and that they'd be willing to read for a national archive.
	web.mit.edu /comm-forum/forums/robert_pinsky.htm (2701 words)

	Robert Pinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
		Robert Pinsky was a guest star in The Simpsons episode "Little Girl in the Big Ten".
		After the reading he describes the President (presumably Bill Clinton, but personified as the "crusty old dean" stereotype often used by the program), shouting from the White House, demanding a poem that he hadn't handed in, like a piece of homework.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Pinsky (389 words)

	Pantheon \| Catalog \| The Life of David by Robert Pinsky
		Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David’s life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his human humiliations.
		Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinsky’s erudition and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression, King David——both the man and the idea of the man——is brought brilliantly to life.
		Robert Pinsky is the author of many books of poetry, including Jersey Rain and The Figured Wheel, and of the award-winning translation The Inferno of Dante.
	www.randomhouse.com /pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805242034 (207 words)

	SULAIR: AmLitStudies: Robert Pinsky Papers
		Pinsky studied English at Rutgers University (BA, 1962) and Stanford Univeristy (MA and PhD, 1967), where he was a Woodrow Wilson, Stegner, and Fulbright Fellow.
		Pinsky's four volumes of poetry are distinguished by a quiet contemplative style that probes the moral and spiritual ambiguities of life in contemporary America.
		Poetry: Manuscripts of Pinsky's Sadness and Happiness and An Explanation of America are arranged in order of revision, from the first draft to the final manuscript.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/pinsky.html (807 words)

	Favorite Poem Project: Robert Pinksy - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pinsky's most recent collection of poetry, Jersey Rain, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in April 2000.
		Pinsky is co-editor of Americans' Favorite Poems (Norton, 1999) and the more recent Poems To Read (Norton, 2002), anthologies that grew out of the Favorite Poem Project, his main undertaking as Poet Laureate..
		Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talent, a poet-critic." Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, William Pritchard called Sadness and Happiness "the best work by any younger poet within recent memory." Louis Martz wrote of Pinsky "the most exhilarating new poet that I have read since A. R.Ammons entered upon the scene.
	www.bu.edu /favoritepoem/contact/rp_bio.html (632 words)

	Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky To Speak At Duke Oct. 26
		Pinsky, who was poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, is author of "The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1965-1995," which received the Lenore Marshall Award and the Ambassador Book Award of the English Speaking Union, and the book-length poem "An Explanation of America."
		Pinsky also is a contributor to the "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" on PBS, is poetry editor of the online journal "Slate," and teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.
		Pinsky's talk at Duke is sponsored by the Duke University Union Major Speakers Committee.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2002/10/pinsky1015.html (318 words)

	Poet laureate Robert Pinsky to speak at Stanford (4/98) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Pinsky, poet laureate of the United States, will return to Stanford, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry in 1964, on April 6 and 7.
		Pinsky also is a distinguished translator whose verse translation of Dante's Inferno was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets.
		Pinsky currently is professor of graduate writing at Boston University and the poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/98/980401pinsky.html (150 words)

	Online NewsHour: Richard Pinsky -- American Poet Laureate - April 2, 1997
		ROBERT PINSKY: One notion I have is to add to the wonderful archives the Library has of poets reading their poems, an archive of Americans of many kinds reading favorite poems.
		ROBERT PINSKY: When I was in high school I was ambitious to be a musician, and probably the first things I wrote were songs.
		ROBERT PINSKY: I think I was probably thinking about Sid Caesar and the amazing thing he does.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/april97/poet_4-2.html (1341 words)

	Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to Speak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pinsky's devotion to making poetry widely accessible has gone beyond his work with the Favorite Poems Project into cyberspace: he is poetry editor of "Slate" magazine and a number of his poems and interviews can be found on-line.
		Pinsky's appearance is part of the Kennedy Lecture series, which was established in the fall of 1962 by a contribution to Ohio University from Edwin L. and Ruth Kennedy, who wanted a premier lecture series which would discuss "major issues of American life." Mr.
		Pinsky in advance of or during his Ohio University visit, contact Leesa Brown, Assistant Vice President for Communications at Ohio University at 740-593-1043.
	www.ohiou.edu /news/99-00/247.html (374 words)

	Robert Pinsky Reappointed Poet Laureate
		Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced that Robert Pinsky has accepted his invitation to serve a second year as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
		Pinsky also initiated what he hopes will become a tradition among Laureates, the printing of a poem by a former Laureate in decorative broadside form.
		Pinsky is the author of three collections of essays: Landor's Poetry (1968), The Situation of Poetry (1977), and Poetry and the World (1988).
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/1998/98-079.html (922 words)

	Meridian: Interview with Robert Pinsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Pinsky is the Poet Laureate of the United States.
		Pinsky, at his home in Boston, was finishing a photo-shoot.
		Pinsky was allowed to talk about the pressures of his office as well as his hopes, long enough to permit us to glimpse the man behind the post.
	www.poems.com /pinskint.htm (1326 words)

	Amazon.com: Jersey Rain: Books: Robert Pinsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pinsky has several careers within the realm of literature: poet, translator, and public advocate of poetry.
		The secret to reading a Pinsky poem is to read it very slowly, out loud, annunciating each syllable as though it were its own line: you will realize that the slimness of this book is misleading.
		Pinsky seems to construct each of his poems out of perfect sound, so carefully that each line--free verse or otherwise--resonates with meaning and memorability, as anyone who has read THE FIGURED WHEEL will probably already know.
	www.amazon.com /Jersey-Rain-Robert-Pinsky/dp/0374178879 (1540 words)

	Multimedia Events - Library of Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Pinsky discussed the ancient origins of poetry as a memory device at a previous Library lecture, when he said: "Poetry is a technique developed by this animal, the human--a fairly useless animal.
		Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project, part of the Library's bicentennial celebration in the year 2000, continues to encourage Americans to read or recite a favorite poem; readings have occurred across the United States.
		Robert Pinsky, Creative Writing Department, Boston University, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215.
	www.connectlive.com /events/libraryofcongress/pinsky100898 (192 words)

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