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Poet Robert Pinsky is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston University. He is the author of nineteen books, most recently his Selected Poems (2011) and the anthology Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters (2013). Pinsky’s translation The Inferno of Dante (1994) received the Los Angeles Times Book Award in poetry. His volume of poetry The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received the Lenore Marshall Award and the Ambassador Book Award. As Poet Laureate of the United States (1997-2000), Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, in which thousands of Americans—of varying backgrounds, all ages, and from every state—shared their favorite poems. Awarded the Italian Premio Capri and the Korean Manhae award, he is the only member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters to have appeared on both The Simpsons and The Colbert Report.
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