21. Multimedia Events - Library Of Congress Individuals interested in submitting suggestions may write to Mr. robert pinsky, Creative Writing Department, Boston University, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, http://www.connectlive.com/events/libraryofcongress/pinsky100898/

Welcome to the Event Multimedia Center Return to Main Menu Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky: "Poetry and American Memory" Event Date: Thursday, October 8, 1998 With this lecture on "Poetry and American Memory," Mr. Pinsky officially opened the Library's 1998-1999 poetry and literature series. The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry is appointed each year by the Librarian of Congress. See and hear Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky (note: the free RealPlayer G2 software is required to view - download here BACKGROUND Mr. 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 humana fairly useless animal. It has no claws, no hide, no real teeth and it doesn't run fast, but it is clever and it looks around a lot. For survival it developed forms of communication evolved for the purposes of memory, for the effective storage of important information and the transmission of that information accurately and effectively from one person to that person's peers." Mr. 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. Individuals interested in submitting suggestions may write to Mr. Robert Pinsky, Creative Writing Department, Boston University, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA, 02215.

22. Spreading The Word robert pinsky talks about his mission to popularize poetry, Emily Dickinson versus hiphop, and the enduring influence of The Colbert Report. http://www.motherjones.com/arts/qa/2007/10/Robert-Pinsky-Interview.html

HOME RECENT POLITICS BLOGS ... RSS MOTHER JONES BY E-MAIL Spreading the Word Interview: Robert Pinsky talks about his mission to popularize poetry, Emily Dickinson versus hip-hop, and the enduring influence of The Colbert Report Robert Pinsky By Kiera Butler October 16, 2007 TOOLS E-mail article Print article document.write("Digg") document.write("del.icio.us") document.write("Reddit") document.write("Yahoo MyWeb") BACKTALK E-mail the editor document.write("StumbleUpon") document.write("Newsvine") document.write("Google") South Carolina's Lasting Impact What's Next for (Bill) Clinton and the Anti-Obama Attack Machine? Obama Wins South Carolina; Plus, Bill's Jesse Jackson Comparison Exit Polls in South Carolina Point to Importance of Economy, Dirty Politics ... Dumps on Giuliani in McCain Endorsement Robert Pinsky has spent the better part of his career trying to convince Americans that poetry is for everyone. While he was serving as the United States poet laureate from 1997 to 2000, he traveled around the country with a camera crew, filming people reading their favorite poems. The result was the Favorite Poem Project , an online video database where you can watch a salesman in Barneveld, New York, read John Ashbery or a U.S. Marine officer in Miami recite Walt Whitman.

23. US Dept Of State - Publications robert pinsky teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. He is poetry editor for the online magazine Slate, and he reads poems http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/writers/pinsky.htm

USINFO Publications WRITERS ON AMERICA Introduction Elmaz Abinader Just off Main Street Julia Alvarez Sven Birkerts The Compulsory Power of American Dreams Robert Olen Butler A Postcard from America Michael Chabon Maps and Legends Billy Collins What's American About American Poetry? Robert Creeley America's American David Herbert Donald On Being an American Historian Richard Ford How Does Being an American Inform What I Write? Linda Hogan For Life's Sake Mark Jacobs Both Sides of the Border Charles Johnson An American Milk Bottle Bharati Mukherjee On Being an American Writer Naomi Shihab Nye This Crutch That I Love Robert Pinsky A Provincial Sense of Time A Provincial Sense of Time by Robert Pinsky Robert Pinsky teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. He is poetry editor for the online magazine Slate , and he reads poems as a contributor to public television's The Newshour with Jim Lehrer Jersey Rain The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received both the Lenore Marshall Award and the Ambassador Book Award of the English Speaking Union. His other awards include the Shelley Memorial Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award as well as the Howard Morton Landon Translation Prize for his best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Pinsky is co-editor of Americans' Favorite Poems and the more recent

24. Robert Pinksy's Commencement Address: 6/13/99 pinsky U.S. a great nation, but still engaged in becoming a great people. This is a transcription of the speech by U.S. Poet Laureate robert pinsky, http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1999/june16/pinsky-616.html

Issue of June 16, 1999 Pinsky: U.S. a great nation, but still engaged in becoming a great people This is a transcription of the speech by U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Commencement speaker, on June 13, 1999. I'll start in the formal traditional way by addressing President Casper and Provost Rice, the trustees and faculty, the honored guests, the graduates and their families and their guests. Thanks a lot for inviting me to come here. I really appreciate it. I call attention to the formality of the traditional beginning of this kind of speech, because one of the things I want to talk to you about today is the question: What are we doing here? Related Information: Video of Pinsky's address RealPlayer Media Player By comparison, other secular rituals, like the inauguration of an American president, for example, or the ceremonies of becoming an American citizen, get accomplished with a kind of quick, understated simplicity, more like getting a driver's license than our ceremonies today. Why do we mark these occasions with such intense degrees of, as the song title is, "Pomp and Circumstance"?

25. Poetry Pages - Robert Pinsky Index robert pinsky From The Inferno of Dante A New Verse Translation 169, 89-109) Hear robert pinsky read the first nine lines in Italian (in RealAudio) http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/aandc/dante/rplist.htm

Robert Pinsky From The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation From Canto I (ll. 1-69, 89-109) Hear Robert Pinsky read the first nine lines in Italian (in RealAudio RA 28.8 RA 14.4 Hear lines 1-69 of the translation: RA 28.8 RA 14.4 Hear lines 89-109: RA 28.8 RA 14.4 From Canto II (ll. 1-11) Hear Pinsky read lines 1-11: RA 28.8 RA 14.4 From Canto V (ll. 22-44, 64-127) Hear Pinsky read lines 22-44: RA 28.8 RA 14.4 Hear lines 64-127: RA 28.8 RA 14.4 For help, see a note about the audio. Return to Introduction

26. Robert Pinsky Considers Guantanamo Poetry (5:00) | PRI's The World Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with former US Poet Laureate robert pinsky about a soon-to-be published collection of poetry by detainees at the US prison camp http://www.theworld.org/?q=node/10275

27. SALON: Robert Pinsky began his artistic career as a saxophone player, but robert pinsky switched to poetry in college. Even as a child, I enjoyed reading things that I couldn t http://www.salon.com/weekly/pinsky.html

robert pinsky began his artistic career as a saxophone player, but Robert Pinsky switched to poetry in college. Even as a child, "I enjoyed reading things that I couldn't understand. I liked the smoky atmosphere and haze of reading something too old for me or simply opaque. I liked the mystery of it and figuring it out." As a poet, he seeks out the challenge of writing in an unusually public voice, conjuring "the way people spoke and the manners they had when I was a child in a largely black, working class neighborhood. I like thinking of them as part a continuum with people who have read a lot of books. In my work I've struggled to understand history not as the long-ago doings of kings and powerful people but as a kind of force, visible and sometimes subterranean, in everything people do." Pinsky began his heralded 1995 translation of Dante's "Inferno" when he was asked to translate just one canto and couldn't stop. "I always feel most relaxed and comfortable doing something that seems unlikely and that I'm not prepared for or expected to shine at. I was always the kid who preferred the pop quiz. Thinking about trying something impossible makes me feel light-hearted." On "Eve Tempted by the Serpent" by Defendente Ferrari, and in Memory of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan of Texas

28. Robert Pinsky And Friends (June 1998) - Library Of Congress Information Bulletin Recently reappointed Poet Laureate robert pinsky, who has had a busy year, told a Library audience a bit about himself and his writing as he closed the http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/pinsky.html

@import url(../css/loc_lcib_ss.css); skip navigation Options The Library of Congress Information Bulletin ... About the LCIB Related Resources News from the Library of Congress Events at the Library of Congress Exhibitions at the Library of Congress Wise Guide to loc.gov Robert Pinsky and Friends Poet Laureate Reads, Hosts Fellow Poets By YVONNE FRENCH Recently reappointed Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, who has had a busy year, told a Library audience a bit about himself and his writing as he closed the 1997-1998 literary season with a reading from his poetry Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky N. Alicia Byers In the words of Dr. Billington, "In his first term, Robert Pinsky has actively encouraged a national renaissance of spoken poetry. His vision of recording a broad cross section of Americans reading their favorite poems has met with heartfelt enthusiasm throughout the country. The Library looks forward to enriching its archives with the recordings he selects in his second term." Mr. Pinsky said: "I'm happy to do the job another year, and I look forward to continuing work on the Favorite Poem Project with the help and cooperation of the Library." The Favorite Poem Project is Mr. Pinsky's main undertaking as Laureate. He is choosing 1,200 people to say their favorite poem aloud on audio and video tape. The 1,000 audio recordings will commemorate the millennium, the 200 video tapes are to be symbolic of the Library's Bicentennial in the year 2000. As one of the Library's cultural "Gifts to the Nation" on its 200th birthday, the tapes will come to rest in the Library's Archive of Recorded Literature on Tape, which has some 2,000 poets and authors reading their work.

29. Robert Pinsky Self The Living Century . robert pinsky is the author of six books of poetry, four books of criticism Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0992695/

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30. Hear Reading By Poet Robert Pinsky In my opinion the medium of poetry is not words, not images, not lines, Poet robert pinsky said during the preamble to the first poem he presented last http://www.jcu.edu/news/robert_pinsky.htm

Home About JCU Search Directories ... Calendar Future Students Thinking of JCU? Admission Current Students Academics Registrar Centers/Institutes Grasselli Library ... Parents Alumni Giving at JCU Faculty/Staff Faculty/Staff Human Resources Poet Robert Pinsky packs Donahue Auditorium In my opinion the medium of poetry is not words, not images, not lines," Poet Robert Pinsky said during the preamble to the first poem he presented last night (Feb 10). "The medium for poetry is one person's voice. It's the human body. Breath." Pinsky added he was not referring only to the poet's voice. Nevertheless a packed Donahue Auditorium sat for over an hour last night (Feb 10), transfixed by the words, body language and even the breath of the former US Poet Laureate. His appearance was sponsored by the The Francis Smith SJ Poetry Series and JCU's Creative Writing Program. To access the menu and hear audio streaming of the introduction by Poet and Director George Bilgere, the readings of Pinsky and his answers to the audience's questions, click on the audio-speakers icon above.

31. Robert Pinsky A reference page on robert pinsky, poet, critic, sax player, translator of Dante, US Poet Laureate 1997 2000 instigator of the Favorite Poem Project. http://poetry.about.com/od/poets/p/pinsky.htm

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32. Robert Pinsky — Infoplease.com Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon Keeping You Safe Beside Me and robert pinsky Our Premier Poet Scholar. (Book Reviews).(Video Recording. http://www.infoplease.com/ipea/A0901570.html

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33. 3quarksdaily Samurai Song by robert pinsky. From Poetry International Web. Screenhunter_02_apr_25_1731 Samurai Song. When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/04/samurai_song_by.html

ABOUT US ARCHIVES LINKS RSS ... MONDAY COLUMNS An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature Main April 25, 2007 Samurai Song by Robert Pinsky From Poetry International Web Samurai Song When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. When I had No supper my eyes dined. When I had no eyes I listened. When I had no ears I thought. When I had no thought I waited. When I had no father I made Care my father. When I had No mother I embraced order. When I had no friend I made Quiet my friend. When I had no Enemy I opposed my body. When I had no temple I made My voice my temple. I have No priest, my tongue is my choir. When I have no means fortune Is my means. When I have Nothing, death will be my fortune. Need is my tactic, detachment Is my strategy. When I had No lover I courted my sleep. See video of Pinsky reciting the poem here Permalink Comments Read it once - intriguing. Read it twice - brilliant! Posted by: beajerry Colbert lapdogs, eh? Posted by: Jared Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Comments: Subscribe to this blog's feed var site="s12kundalini" Help 3 Quarks Daily Bookmark This Page 3QD ADVERTISING google_ad_client = "pub-9119594311481711"; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; google_ad_format = "160x600_as"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_ad_channel =""; google_color_border = "CCCCCC"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "000000"; google_color_url = "666666"; google_color_text = "333333";

34. Outlook - Pledge Of Allegiance Alternatives robert pinsky, former poet laureate. I ve concluded the Pledge of Allegiance is about as perfect as imperfect humans could devise. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinion/2005/pledge/altpledge_pinsky.html

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'media/tempconv/chet'; placeChannelNav('article970'); makeBreadCrumbsUsingCss(thisNode); E-Mail This Graphic RSS News Feeds Top News World What is RSS? All RSS Feeds ... Next Alternative Pledge Variations on a Pledge Comments from two who chose not to revise I love our imperfect country, and I love it partly for the ideal of respect for differences, the dignity of the unique individual. No communal incantation can embody that ideal. I don't believe that I got much from chanting sentences of allegiance in school each morning. Patriotism is not the same as piety. My classmates and I would have been better off, and it would be more in the best American spirit, if the teacher had read a different passage from "Leaves of Grass" each morning. - Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate I've concluded the Pledge of Allegiance is about as perfect as imperfect humans could devise. It pledges loyalty and love to a symbol of our nation, the nation itself, and its constitutional form; it asserts unbreakable unity, acknowledges God, and aspires, at the end, to democratic perfection. Pretty good! And in only 31 words. - Peggy Noonan, former presidential speechwriter

35. ThoughtCast » Poet Robert Pinsky Takes On King David Former poet laureate robert pinsky tackles King David of the Bible the robert pinsky delves into these questions, and into David’s story, with relish. http://thoughtcast.org/casts/poet-robert-pinsky-takes-on-king-david

Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David Standard Podcast [28:30m]: Play Now Play in Popup Download Note: WCAI and WNAN , the Cape and Islands public radio channels, broadcast this interview, as did Yellowstone Public Radio! Robert Pinsky Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky Is David a legend? A real, flesh and blood warrior who killed Goliath, and united the 12 Jewish tribes into one nation? Robert Pinsky delves into these questions, and into David’s story, with relish. David’s story has been told many times, and the tale has changed with each telling. There’s the David of the Hebrew Bible, and another version of his life in the Talmud. We know he slept with Bathsheba, but was this a sin? An act of love? Of violence? It depends on whom you ask. David, who lived about 3000 years ago, was beloved of God, and as a result, he got away with more than his share. He was a seductive, wily politician, a doting father, a bitter old man. These contradictions in David’s character spur Pinsky on, and he adds his own twist to the tale, as you will hear, on ThoughtCast! Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website (optional) Welcome to ThoughtCast!

36. Powell's Books - Gulf Music By Robert Pinsky Dollars, dolors. Callings and contrivances. King Zulu. Comus.Sephardic juju and verses. Voodoo mojo, Special Forces.Henry formed a group named Professor http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-9780374167493-0

37. Wired 12.09: START Former US poet laureate robert pinsky celebrates the pixel s 50th birthday. Previous Why Hybrids Are Hot Next Holy Instrument of God! http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/start.html?pg=3

38. Favorite Poem Project Started by former US Poet Laureate robert pinsky, the Favorite Poem Project allows people to submit their favorite poems along with a personal story about http://www.favoritepoem.org/

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39. Robert Pinsky News - The New York Times News about robert pinsky. Commentary and archival information about robert pinsky from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/robert_pinsky/index

40. CRITICAL MASS What Are You Recommending, Robert Pinsky? One of the voters was also one of the winners former U.S. poet laureate robert pinsky, whose Gulf Music wound up in a threeway tie for first in the http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-are-you-recommending-robert-p

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