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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky has performed as a spoken word artist with musicians including Mino Cinélu, Catherine Bent, Bobby Bradford, Laurence Hobgood, Vijay Iyer, Josh Ritter, Stan Strickland and Bruce Springsteen. He is the only member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters to have appeared on The Simpsons and The Colbert Report. His albums with Laurence Hobgood are PoemJazz (2012) and House Hour: PoemJazz II (2015).
“What has six arms, an enormous appetite, and roams over the earth devouring experience with omnivorous reverence? The poet Robert Pinsky, that's who. In The Want Bone, Pinsky invents a poetic mode all his own, a magisterial, probing, curious, wandering semi-omniscient intelligence--like, that's right, the Eye of God— gathering and recording data into some divine record . . ."—Tony Hoagland
Robert Pinsky’s books of poetry include Gulf Music, The Want Bone, The Figured Wheel (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and his best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante. A three-time Poet Laureate of the United States, he has received honors including the Korean Manhae Award, the Italian Premio Capri and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago. His recent autobiography is Jersey Breaks. His next book of poems, also entitled Proverbs of Limbo, will be published in May, 2024.
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Three time U.S. Poet Laureate!
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Poetic Rhythms: Jazz and Poetry with Robert Pinsky and Stan Strickland
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Larry Keller
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky combines his interest in jazz and poetry in a music-inflected reading with renowned jazz musicians Stan Strickland (saxophone), John Lockwood (bass) and Rakalam Bob Moses (drums) on Saturday, December 10, at 8pm, at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton. Pinsky, a professor of creative writing at Boston University and author of 19 books, is known for his ability to bring poetry to life. Strickland, a singer, saxophonist, flutist and actor, has performed throughout ...
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