Robert Pinsky, a prominent voice in American poetry, visited Porter Square Books on Oct. 29 to talk about and read from his new anthology of poetry, “The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes ...

When he was a teenager, Robert Pinsky played tenor saxophone and piano and wanted to pursue a career as a professional musician. Now, said the three-time poet laureate, “my instrument is spoken words.

Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky in the WBUR studios. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) "Proverbs of Limbo" is the third installment in former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's poem-jazz series. It combines ...

For Robert Pinsky, the pleasure in poetry comes from the music of the language, and not from the meaning of the words. So he put together an anthology of 80 poems that are models by master poets-- ...

Three-term U.S. poet laureate Robert Pinsky delivered the Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Princeton University last April, reprinted here as Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry. The nine ...

The same name as the famous actor I Am one of the last people to remember. It’s possible the two of them were cousins. I called him Uncle Leo. That was the custom Among that generation on the margins: ...

The “gulf” in the title of Pinsky's seventh collection is both the large southern body of water that has been the site of so much weather-related misery, and the unavoidable distances between an ...

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky offers a poem about the masks we wear. Former poet laureate and NewsHour contributor Robert Pinsky offers some poetic solace to those hit hard by the stock ...

As Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000), Robert Pinsky dedicated his unprecedented three terms to invigorating poetry's reputation in the literary world. He is the author of six books of ...