with Richard Howard, Robert Pinsky and George Plimpton on Apr 27, 2000
with Robert Pinsky on May 19, 1998
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator who served in the post of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1997 to 2000. He is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry, but including critically-acclaimed translations of the “Inferno” from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” and a collection of poems by Czeslaw Milosz.
Pinsky’s poetry collection “An Explanation of America” won the Saxifrage Prize. For “History of My Heart”, he was awarded the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. “The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems” was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and was awarded the Ambassador Book Award in Poetry of the English Speaking Union and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pinsky
