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Compiled by Peter Armenti, Digital Reference Specialist
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Robert Pinsky,
U.S. Poet Laureate, 1997-2000
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On March 28, 1997, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington
announced the appointment of Robert Pinsky to be the 9th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky was the first and only poet laureate to serve three terms, finishing his duties in spring 2000. This guide compiles
links to resources on Robert Pinsky throughout the Library
of Congress Web site, as well as links to external Web sites
that include features on his life or selections
of his work. To suggest additions to this guide, please contact the Digital Reference Section.
Library of Congress Web Site
•Biographies
•Press Releases, Articles
•Audio and Video
•Print Resources
External
Web Sites
•Biographical Information, Poetry
•National Poetry Project
•Interviews, Articles, and Conversations
•Audio Recordings
•Video
•Articles, Essays, and Other Prose by Robert Pinsky
•Teaching Aids
•Book Reviews
•Other
•Robert Pinsky in the News
Biographies
Biography
of Robert Pinsky from the Poetry & Literature
Center
Press Releases, Articles
Official press release announcing Robert Pinsky's appointment
as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry
Related article from the Library of Congress
Information Bulletin
Official Press release announcing Robert Pinsky's appointment
to a second term as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry
Related article from the Library of Congress
Information Bulletin
Official Press release announcing Robert Pinsky's appointment
to an unprecedented third term as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry
Audio and Video
Audio
Poet and the Poem Series, November 10, 1999 (direct link; 58:16)
Transcript
Video
"Poetry in the Public Sphere," May 13, 2002 (50:56)
"Poetry and American Memory," October 8, 1998 (1:27:16)
Print Resources
Works by Robert Pinsky in the Library of Congress online
catalog can be found under the following author heading:
Pinsky, Robert
Works about Robert Pinsky can be found in the Library of
Congress online catalog under
the following subject heading:
Pinsky, Robert Interviews
Biographical Information, Poetry
Academy of American Poets
A biography of Robert Pinsky, samples of his poetry and prose,
and links to external resources.
Boston University Faculty Page
Includes a selected bibliography of publications and a list of Pinsky's honors, grants, and awards.
Poetry Foundation
A biography of Robert Pinsky, bibliography of his writings, and links to more than one dozen online poems.
Steven Barclay Agency
A biography of Robert Pinsky.
National Poetry Project
Favorite Poem Project
The Favorite Poem Project was developed by Robert Pinsky and designed for Americans to share their favorite poems. The Favorite Poem Project Web site includes 50 short video documentaries showcasing individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love.
Overview from the Library of Congress
Information Bulletin
Interviews, Articles, and Conversations
"Thrilling Difficulty: An Interview with Robert Pinsky"
Interviewed by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, Guernica, November 2007
"Spreading the Word"
Interviewed by Kiera Butler, Mother Jones, October 16, 2007
Interview with Robert Pinsky
The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, v. 1, no. 1, 2004
"The Poet as City Planner: An Interview with Robert Pinsky"
Interviewed by Tony Barnstone and Shawn Fitzpatrick, Poetry Flash no. 287, April/May 2001
The Road Taken: Interview with Robert Pinsky
Online NewsHour Extra, September 2000
Pinsky: A 'Hard Act to Follow'
Interviewed by Jamie Allen, CNN News, August 18, 2000
"An Interview with Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate"
Interviewed by Felix Carroll, Cape Cod Times, 2000
"Robert Pinsky's Grand Slam"
Interviewed by Anne-Marie Cusac, Utne Reader, September/October 1999
An Interview with Robert Pinsky
Resonance Publications, August 1999
"Robert Pinsky - US Poet Laureate - Interview"
Interviewed by by Anne-Marie Cusac, The Progressive, May 1999
"An Interview With Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky"
Interviewed by by Evelyn McDonnell, Village Voice, April 13th, 1999
"The Poet Laureate and the Fraygrants"
Slate, September 5, 1998
An Interview with Robert Pinsky
Archived version of Poetry Daily page; interview originally published in Meridian, Spring 1998
Interview with Robert Pinsky
Interviewed by by J.M. Spalding, The Cortland Review, March 1998
"In Intervals: Robert Pinsky and Tom Sleigh in Conversation"
Interviewed by Tom Sleigh, The Academy of American Poets, October 1, 1997
"Pinsky's Progress: America's Poet Laureate Tries to Bridge the Gap Between Poetry and the World"
Boston Phoenix, April 1997
"Poetry and Education: Robert Pinsky on the Future of Poetry"
Interviewed by Joyce Wilson, Poetry Porch 3, April, 1996
"Poetry, Computers, and Dante's Inferno: An Online Conference with Robert Pinsky"
Transcript of a live online conference with Robert Pinsky as it appeared in The Atlantic Monthly Online on the America Online network, April 19, 1995
"Image and Text: A Dialogue with Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur"
Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Occasional Papers. December 1994
Interview with Robert Pinsky
Interviewed by Kevin Shay, Concord Grape, June 1991
Interview with Robert Pinsky
Every Writer's Resource.com
Modern American Poetry
Three interviews with Robert Pinsky
Poets Q&A: Robert Pinsky
Smartish Place
Audio Recordings
Radio Programs
Poets Laureate Talk about Their Art (segment begins at 22:51)
Minnesota Public Radio, May 13, 2009
Robert Pinsky on EasySpeaks (1:30:00)
EasySpeaks, June 17, 2008
Robert Pinsky Considers Guantanamo Poetry (04:50)
The World, May 22, 2007
Robert Pinsky (33:30)
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU, December 29, 2005
Robert Pinsky discusses An Invitation to Poetry (16:22)
The Leonard Lopate Show, September 8, 2004
Robert Pinsky (47:47)
The Connection, NPR, September 7, 2004
Robert Pinsky (09:51)
Weekend Edition Sunday, NPR,
September 8, 2002
Robert Pinsky: "Poems to Read" (51:32)
The Diane Rehm Show, WAMU, July 15, 2002
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky (11:18)
Fresh Air, NPR,
September 21, 2001
Pledge Allegiance Pause (02:49)
February 28, 1998
Magnetic Poetry (59:00)
Talk of the Nation, NPR, February 11, 1998
America's Wordsworth (09:46)
The Online NewsHour, April 2, 1997
Poetry in Performance (28:57)
What the Word Radio Program, Modern Language Association
Other Audio
"Poetry and Documentary Expression": A Conversation with Robert Pinsky
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, October 30, 2006
King David (52:34)
Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, October 23, 2005
Raising King David (13:22)
Nextbook, September 6, 2005
Robert Pinsky at John Carroll University
February 19, 2005
Internet Poetry Archive
Robert Pinsky introduces and reads nine poems
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David (28:30)
ThoughtCast
Fooling with Words
Includes reading of "ABC" and interview segment
Robert Pinsky Reading and Interview
This Wired for Books feature includes two interviews and a poetry reading
Robert Pinsky, Reading from The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation
The Atlantic.com
Video (includes television programs, readings, and animated poetry)
Meta-Free-Phor-All
Robert Pinsky moderates a metaphor competition between Stephen Colbert and Sean Penn in a segment for Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.
A Conversation with Robert Pinsky (1:53:50)
MIT World, February 23, 2006
Pinsky Reads Several Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1:55:55)
WGBH Forum Network, June 28, 2003
Poetry Panel with Robert Pinsky, George Plimpton, and Richard Howard (55:45)
The Charlie Rose Show, April 27, 2000
Robert Pinsky on The Charlie Rose Show
(starts at 34:32)
The Charlie Rose Show, December 25, 1996
"Samurai Song"
In this YouTube video, Pinsky walks down the street, enters a building, enters an elevator, and recites "Samurai Song" while it ascends.
Big Think
A series of videos featuring Robert Pinsky reading his poetry, as well as his thoughts on the arts and and other aspects of American culture and society
Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate, Visits Ohio University(28:49)
intouch, WOUB TV
Robert Pinsky Reads "ABC"
YouTube
Online NewsHour Poetry Readings
Reading "9/11"
Reading from "An Explanation of America"
Reading an excerpt from "December Blues"
Reading "Jar of Pens"
Reading a poem about tennis
Reading Emily Dickinson, #249--"Wild Nights - Wild Nights"
Reading Countee Cullen's "Incident"
Reading translated poems by Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai
Reading E. E. Cummings' "The Passing of the Year"
Reading Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
Reading John Hollander's "Sparklers"
Reading Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
Reading a Robert Herrick Christmas carol
Reading Horace's "To Licinius"
Reading Philip Levine's "What Work Is"
Reading Lynne McMahon's "Spring"
Reading Marianne Moore's "What Are Years"
Reading Alan Shapiro's "The Courts at Lawton Street"
Reading Charles Simic's "Empire of Dreams"
Reading Su Tung-p'o's "Children"
Reading Mark Turpin's "The Box"
Reading Rosanna Warren's "Child's Room in Autumn"
Reading William Wordsworth's "Mutability"
Reading W. B. Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Remembering poet A. R. Ammons
Remembering poet Agha Shahid Ali
Articles, Essays, and Other Prose by Robert Pinsky
"Marianne Moore's 'Poetry': Why Did She Keep Revising It?"
Slate, June 30, 2009
"Two Riddles. These poems have right answers. Does that diminish them?"
Slate, May 26, 2009
"The Calm and the Restless. The plainness of Edward Thomas' 'The Owl' vs. the struggle of Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'Carrion Comfort.'"
Slate, April 21, 2009
"The American John Milton: The Poet and the Power of Extraordinary Speech"
Slate, August 22, 2008
"'All My Senses, Like Beacon's Flame.' Fulke Greville's eloquent path to confused arousal."
Slate, March 17, 2009
"No. 443: 'I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl.' Why does Emily Dickinson extol "little duties" in the wake of a catastrophe?"
Slate, January 27, 2009
"'The Darkling Thrush.' Thomas Hardy's timely meditation on the turning of an era. Robert Pinsky Dec. 30, 2008"
Slate, January 27, 2009
"'A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall.' Robert Herrick's yuletide tribute to the lush pleasures of spring."
Slate, December 23, 2008
"'There Was a Man of Double Deed.' The unhinged reason of an anonymous classic."
Slate, November 11, 2008
"'On Love, on Grief.' Why Walter Savage Landor's classic epigram is a lesson in economy.
Slate, October 7, 2008
"Why Don't Modern Poems Rhyme, Etc. Frequently Asked Questions about the Business of Verse."
Slate, April 17, 2008
"In Praise of Difficult Poetry"
Slate, April 23, 2007
"Great Poems About Sex: An Anthology for Valentine's Day."
Slate, February 14, 2007
"Remember Stanley Kunitz"
Slate, May 16, 2006
"Dissed in Verse: The Art of the Poetic Insult."
Slate, April 26, 2006
"Valentine's Day Poetry Love Isn't Always Pretty."
Slate, February 8, 2006
"A Little Anthology of Love Poems: What to Read Your Sweetheart on Valentine's Day."
Slate, February 11, 2005
"The Poet on the Poem" (Pinsky writes about his poem "Louie Louie")
The American Poetry Review (vie FindArticles.com), January/February 2005
"Poetry and War, Again"
Slate, March 14, 2003
"Poetry and Sept. 11: A Guided Anthology"
Slate, September 6, 2002
"A Provincial Sense of Time"
Writers on America, U.S. Department of State, 2002
Transcript of Stanford University Commencement Address
June 13, 1999
Robert Pinsky Keeps a Weeklong Online Journal at Slate magazine. See entries for:
December 7-11, 1998
December 31 1996-January 3, 1997
August 19-23, 2006
Teaching Aids
eNotes.com
Critical information on Pinsky from Thomson Gale's Poetry Criticism series.
Favorite Poem Project Teaching Resources
Lesson plans, ideas for school events, and other resources for teachers seeking to incorporate the Favorite Poem Project into the the classroom.
Modern American Poetry
Includes criticism of three of Pinsky's poems, interviews with Pinsky, the text of one of his essays and his 1999 commencement speech at Stanford University, and related resources for understanding his life and work.
Book Reviews
Gulf Music: Poems (2007)
The Boston Globe
The Life of David (2006)
The American Spectator
BeliefNet
Gilpin County News
JBooks.com
San Francisco Chronicle
Jersey Rain (2000)
Rain Taxi
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1997)
Boston Review (second review on Web page)
The Want Bone (1991)
Ploughshares
Other
Quickmuse Poetry Compositions
Watch Robert Pinsky match up against a fellow poet and compose a poem live, in 15 minutes, on a theme selected by the site editors. Dates for previous sessions are:
October 4, 2007
October 17, 2006
May 30, 2006
Internet Movie Database Listing
Includes a reference to Pinsky's appearance on The Simpsons
Slate Poetry Archive
Poems selected by Robert Pinsky, Slate's poetry editor
Robert Pinsky in the News
Google
News search on Robert Pinsky
Blog entries on Robert Pinsky, via Technorati
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