National Endowment for the Humanities recipient and former three-term United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will kick off the Point Loma Nazarene University Writers Symposium by the Sea on Tuesday ...

Robert Pinsky’s tenure as U.S. poet laureate gave us an expanded vision of the job. In the spirit of his predecessors Joseph Brodsky and Robert Hass, (the former managed to slip volumes of poetry next ...

Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s poem “Exile and Lightning” made an impact when he read it at a PEN America Writers Resist event in January. In front of a crowd that included cultural figures like ...

What is this body as I fall asleep again? What I pretended it was when I was small --A crowded vessel, a starship or submarine Dark in its dark element, a breathing hull, Arms at the flanks, the ...

Robert Pinsky’s latest poetry anthology, “Essential Pleasures,” is a collection of “poems to be read aloud,” with selections dating from antiquity through the present day. I spoke to Pinsky while he ...

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 ...

From the NewsHour Archives: Robert Pinsky on the 4th of July A face NewsHour viewers may remember from his many appearances on the program, poet critic Robert Pinsky served as Poet Laureate of the ...

Robert Pinsky was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1997 to 2000. He currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Boston University. Like many Americans, I may only be one ...