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Robert Pinsky: Modernism and Memory
Robert Pinsky is an acclaimed poet, translator, and essayist whom <em>The New York Times</em> has called "our finest living specimen of this sadly rare breed." He has spoken of poetry as "one of the most fundamental pleasures a person can experience," and as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997-2000, he established the hugely successful Favorite Poem Project, in which Americans from a wide range of backgrounds shared their favorite poems, asserting the role of poetry in the lives of Americans.<br> <br> In this recording of the John Hersey Memorial Address from the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar, Pinsky reads some of his own favorite poems while musing about the process of remembering and forgetting in the context of modernist poetry. Pinsky discusses work by well-known poets including John Keats, Walter Savage Landor, Dante, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Wilbur. He also discusses an anonymous poem from the 18th century that was left with an infant at England's Foundling Hospital; a visit he made to a Zulu Sangomo on a trip to Africa; and the work of psychoanalytic writer Hans Loewald.
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One more look @ the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar
Photo-caption highlights from "Clearing the Sill of the World," the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. An extraordinary literary event, which brought together seven U.S. Poets Laureate, as many winners of the Pulitzer Prize, up-and-coming poetic talents, and a truly remarkable audience of readers, writers, teachers, and poetry lovers of all stripe.
Robert Pinsky to give Keynote at KWLS 28
Three-time United States Poet Laureate <a href="http://www.kwls.org/lit/2010/bio.cfm?auth_id=193">Robert Pinsky</a> has been named the keynote speaker for the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar. Pinsky will deliver the John Hersey Memorial Address on Thursday, January 7, 2010, to kick off <em>Clearing the Sill of the World</em>, a celebration of 60 years of American poetry that will feature a total of eight Poets Laureate, including current Laureate Kay Ryan, Rita Dove, Billy Collins, and our guest of honor Richard Wilbur<em>.</em><br> <br> As Poet Laureate from 1997-2000, Pinsky founded the <a href="http://www.favoritepoem.org/" target="_blank">Favorite Poem Project</a>, an enormously popular initiative dedicated to celebrating, documenting, and encouraging poetry's role in Americans' lives. This unique project resulted in a series of video documentaries showcasing individual Americans reading and speaking personally about poems they love, as well as an anthology, <em>Americans' Favorite Poems</em>, that is now in its 18th printing. In addition to this project, Pinsky has championed poetry's presence in American life with columns in <em>The Washington Post</em> and <em>Slate</em>, television appearances on <em>The Simpsons</em> and <em>The Colbert Report</em>, and videos on internet outlets including YouTube and BigThink. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently <em>Gulf Music</em>; collections of essays including the National Book Critics' Circle Award-nominated <em>Poetry and the World</em>; and translations including the work of Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and a landmark version of Dante's <em>Inferno</em> which received the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> Book Award in poetry and the Howard Morton Landon Prize for translation.
KWLS 28 to Feature 7 U.S. Poets Laureate
<em>Clearing the sill of the world</em>, the 28th annual Key West Literary Seminar, will feature a cast of poets including seven past and present United States Poets Laureate. The office, appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress since 1937, exists to "raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry," and serve as "the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans."
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