Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky's most recent book of poetry is Gulf Music. Earlier works include The Figured Wheel, awarded the Lenore Marshall Prize and The Inferno of Dante, which won the Howard Morton Landon Prize in translation and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. His prose works include The Life of David, an account of the Biblical hero and the recent Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town. A three-time Poet Laureate of the United States, Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project; the project's most recent anthology is An Invitation to Poetry, which includes a DVD featuring Americans reading and talking about beloved poems. His works about poetry include The Sounds of Poetry and Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, based on his Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. Pinsky is the poetry editor of the online magazine Slate and teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University.

Online Resources:

The Colbert Report: Pinsky and Sean Penn in the Meta-Free-Phor-All
"Samurai Song" on YouTube
"ABC" on YouTube
Favorite Poem Project
Pinsky's Big Think page
Guernica interview
The New York Times review of Gulf Music
The Library of Congress Online Resources

Selected Bibliography:

Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town (University of Chicago Press 2009)

Gulf Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008)

First Things to Hand (Sarabande 2006)

Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry (Princeton University Press 2005)

The Life of David (Schocken 2005)

An Invitation to Poetry (W. W. Norton & Company 2004)

Jersey Rain (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001)

History of My Heart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998)

The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997)

The Want Bone (Ecco 1991)

An Explanation of America (Princeton University Press 1979)

Sadness and Happiness (Princeton University Press 1975)