Podcast appearances and mentions of Robert Pinsky

Today: LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of the national voting rights group Black Voters Matter, reflects on the 2024 election, and the need to buckle in for the work of the next four years.And, three-time poet laureate Robert Pinsky joins for Live Music Friday, accompanied by Stan Strickland, ahead of a show at Regattabar in Harvard Square. 

Robert Pinsky is a three-time U.S. Poet Laureate, who's performed alongside Bruce Springsteen and for Lisa Simpson. He joined alongside Berklee professor and bandmate Stan Strickland for Live Music Friday.Ron Mitchell & Breje Williams reflected on MLK's legacy of activism ahead of MLK dayDiana DiZoglio on efforts to bring transparency to the state legislatureLaTosha Brown,activist & organizer behind Black Voters Matter, on Kamala's loss, and the path towards equity under Trump 2.0.  

This week's show collects three interviews with poets David Kirby, Traci Brimhall, and Robert Pinsky in joyful, fun conversations conducted last November at Miami Book Fair.

An episode from 8/14/24: Tonight, I read excerpts from the poet Robert Pinsky's 1995 interview with The Paris Review. It is fascinating to see how much of what he says seems timeless and wise (everything on creativity, writing habits, high and low speech, etc.), and those things that seem stuck in the amber of 1995 (the phenomenon of poets teaching at universities). I end the episode with a reading of his incredible visionary poem, “The Figured Wheel.” (The poem is available in many books, but as I say in the beginning of this episode, it was an early collected volume with that name where I first discovered him.) You can support Human Voices Wake Us here, or by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. I've also edited a handful of books in the S4N Pocket Poems series. Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/support

by Robert Pinsky

This week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts University of Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick interview renowned poet and Boston University professor, Robert Pinsky. He discusses his memoir Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet; the enduring influence of sacred texts like the Psalms; and the wide cultural significance of classic poets like Homer and Shakespeare. Through his book Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, he shares […]

This week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts University of Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick interview renowned poet and Boston University professor, Robert Pinsky. He discusses his memoir Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet; the enduring influence of sacred texts like the Psalms; and the wide cultural significance of classic poets like Homer and Shakespeare. Source

This week on The Learning Curve, guest co-hosts University of Arkansas Prof. Albert Cheng and Dr. Jocelyn Chadwick interview renowned poet and Boston University professor, Robert Pinsky. He discusses his memoir Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet; the enduring influence of sacred texts like the Psalms; and the wide cultural significance of classic poets like Homer and Shakespeare. Through his book Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry, he shares his views on the  vital role of poetry in shaping a vibrant American democracy. Pinsky also talks about the power of poetry in inspiring social change, the importance of reading poetry aloud, and the timeless wisdom embedded in classic poetry, like his translation of Dante's Inferno. In closing, Pinsky reads his poem “Shirt."

Talking about show vs tell at the scene level is a little bit harder than talking about it at the paragraph and scene levels. But it's also a tiny bit easier. When you're looking for telling at this level of the story, what you're looking for is a couple of things: A butt ton of backstory. A butt ton of info dumps A lot of flashback. You can have bits of these things in your stories. Where us authors get into trouble is when we have a lot of it and we have a lot of it in telling language. So, that really happens when we do this: Bud Godzilla looked down on his sweet friend turned zombie. They'd been friends forever, so this hurt. Three page description of how they met – info dump or backstory Or: Bud Godzilla looked down on his sweet friend turned zombie. They'd been friends forever, so this hurt. Three page scene of how they met – flashback. You usually want to limit these places and instead sprinkle in action/dialogue/details throughout to help the readers understand that the characters have history or the world exists before the book begins. There's a balance between telling too much and too little. You want the reader to anticipate that something cool is going to happen or has happened, but you don't want to leave them confused or knowing way too much. You know how sometimes you'll be on the plane and the person will not stop talking for six hours about their boil, their aunts' piano obsessions, their dinner plans while you just want to finish watching the inflight movie? That's what happens with those paragraphs of backstory, flashbacks and info dumping. Everything is paused. The stakes are gone. And when that happens? You risk losing your reader completely. DOG TIP FOR LIFE Pogie says keep your eyes on the prize, my friend, and laugh. COOL WRITING EXERCISE TO MAX OUT YOUR SKILLS This comes from the Writing Cooperative and it's really about how to spot your info dump, which is an exercise. "Once you spot an info-dump, ask yourself the following questions: "How much of this information is it essential for the reader to know right now? Most of the information will not be essential. Be ruthless. Cut it out. "Of the information left — if any — how can I get the protagonist to do something which shows or implies the information? This may involve minor or major rewriting, but you do no-one any good by avoiding it. Rework or add scenes which convey the information through present situations and your protagonist's actions. "If the information is necessary, how can I use it to enhance the emotional effect of the scene? Key in on the emotional impact of the scene and if you must retain information that can't be shown or implied, look for ways to add it in a way that will have an emotional impact. ;But the woman you saw can't have been my mom, Angie. Mom died when I was a kid.'" PLACE TO SUBMIT The Blue Mountain Review launched from Athens, Georgia in 2015 with the mantra, “We're all south of somewhere.” As a journal of culture, the BMR strives to represent all life through its stories. Stories are vital to our survival. What we sing saves the soul. Our goal is to preserve and promote lives told well through prose, poetry, music, and the visual arts. We've published work from and interviews with Jericho Brown, Kelli Russell Agodon, Robert Pinsky, Rising Appalachia, Turkuaz, Michel Stone, Michael Flohr, Lee Herrick, Chen Chen, Michael Cudlitz, Pat Metheny, Melissa Studdard, Lyrics Born, Terry Kay, and Christopher Moore. bluemountainreview.submittable.com/submit SHOUT OUT! The music we've clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here's a link to that and the artist's website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It's “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free. WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It's pretty awesome. We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream biweekly live on Carrie's Facebook and Twitter and YouTube on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. But she also has extra cool content focused on writing tips here. Carrie is reading one of her raw poems every once in awhile on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That's a lot! Subscribe LINKS WE REFERENCE https://gizmodo.com/another-ufo-report-is-a-bust-so-why-do-so-many-people-1851331674 https://www.singularfortean.com/news/2024/3/7/search-for-crashed-object-is-one-of-the-largest-ufo-search-operations-in-the-history-of-norway-investigator-says

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the silent centre of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Tracy K. Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo at the nation's Capitol. It is also a history of how these state poets participated in national arts programming during the Cold War. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials at the Library of Congress and materials at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Dr. Paeth describes the interactions of federal bodies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with literary organisations and with private patrons, including “Prozac heiress” Ruth Lilly. The consolidation of public and private interests is crucial to the development of state verse culture, recognizable at the first National Poetry Festival in 1962, which followed Robert Frost's “Mission to Moscow,” and which became dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The American Poet Laureate contributes to a growing body of institutional and sociological approaches to U.S. literary production in the postwar era and demonstrates how poetry has played a uniquely important, and largely underacknowledged, role in the cultural front of the Cold War. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the silent centre of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Tracy K. Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo at the nation's Capitol. It is also a history of how these state poets participated in national arts programming during the Cold War. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials at the Library of Congress and materials at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Dr. Paeth describes the interactions of federal bodies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with literary organisations and with private patrons, including “Prozac heiress” Ruth Lilly. The consolidation of public and private interests is crucial to the development of state verse culture, recognizable at the first National Poetry Festival in 1962, which followed Robert Frost's “Mission to Moscow,” and which became dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The American Poet Laureate contributes to a growing body of institutional and sociological approaches to U.S. literary production in the postwar era and demonstrates how poetry has played a uniquely important, and largely underacknowledged, role in the cultural front of the Cold War. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the silent centre of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Tracy K. Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo at the nation's Capitol. It is also a history of how these state poets participated in national arts programming during the Cold War. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials at the Library of Congress and materials at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Dr. Paeth describes the interactions of federal bodies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with literary organisations and with private patrons, including “Prozac heiress” Ruth Lilly. The consolidation of public and private interests is crucial to the development of state verse culture, recognizable at the first National Poetry Festival in 1962, which followed Robert Frost's “Mission to Moscow,” and which became dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The American Poet Laureate contributes to a growing body of institutional and sociological approaches to U.S. literary production in the postwar era and demonstrates how poetry has played a uniquely important, and largely underacknowledged, role in the cultural front of the Cold War. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the silent centre of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Tracy K. Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo at the nation's Capitol. It is also a history of how these state poets participated in national arts programming during the Cold War. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials at the Library of Congress and materials at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Dr. Paeth describes the interactions of federal bodies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with literary organisations and with private patrons, including “Prozac heiress” Ruth Lilly. The consolidation of public and private interests is crucial to the development of state verse culture, recognizable at the first National Poetry Festival in 1962, which followed Robert Frost's “Mission to Moscow,” and which became dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The American Poet Laureate contributes to a growing body of institutional and sociological approaches to U.S. literary production in the postwar era and demonstrates how poetry has played a uniquely important, and largely underacknowledged, role in the cultural front of the Cold War. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the silent centre of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Tracy K. Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo at the nation's Capitol. It is also a history of how these state poets participated in national arts programming during the Cold War. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials at the Library of Congress and materials at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Dr. Paeth describes the interactions of federal bodies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with literary organisations and with private patrons, including “Prozac heiress” Ruth Lilly. The consolidation of public and private interests is crucial to the development of state verse culture, recognizable at the first National Poetry Festival in 1962, which followed Robert Frost's “Mission to Moscow,” and which became dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The American Poet Laureate contributes to a growing body of institutional and sociological approaches to U.S. literary production in the postwar era and demonstrates how poetry has played a uniquely important, and largely underacknowledged, role in the cultural front of the Cold War. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the silent centre of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Tracy K. Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo at the nation's Capitol. It is also a history of how these state poets participated in national arts programming during the Cold War. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials at the Library of Congress and materials at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Dr. Paeth describes the interactions of federal bodies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with literary organisations and with private patrons, including “Prozac heiress” Ruth Lilly. The consolidation of public and private interests is crucial to the development of state verse culture, recognizable at the first National Poetry Festival in 1962, which followed Robert Frost's “Mission to Moscow,” and which became dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The American Poet Laureate contributes to a growing body of institutional and sociological approaches to U.S. literary production in the postwar era and demonstrates how poetry has played a uniquely important, and largely underacknowledged, role in the cultural front of the Cold War. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The American Poet Laureate: A History of U.S. Poetry and the State (Columbia University Press, 2023) by Dr. Amy Paeth shows how the state has been the silent centre of poetic production in the United States since World War II. It is the first history of the national poetry office, the U.S. poet laureate, highlighting the careers of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Pinsky, Tracy K. Smith, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Joy Harjo at the nation's Capitol. It is also a history of how these state poets participated in national arts programming during the Cold War. Drawing on previously unexplored archival materials at the Library of Congress and materials at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Dr. Paeth describes the interactions of federal bodies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the National Endowment for the Arts, with literary organisations and with private patrons, including “Prozac heiress” Ruth Lilly. The consolidation of public and private interests is crucial to the development of state verse culture, recognizable at the first National Poetry Festival in 1962, which followed Robert Frost's “Mission to Moscow,” and which became dominant in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The American Poet Laureate contributes to a growing body of institutional and sociological approaches to U.S. literary production in the postwar era and demonstrates how poetry has played a uniquely important, and largely underacknowledged, role in the cultural front of the Cold War. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski: Poetry and Empire https://www.bu.edu/european/files/2014/12/Chapter1_Layout-1.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz https://poets.org/poet/robert-pinsky Pinsky, R. (2012) Selected poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

An episode from 9/15/23: Earlier this year, I thought it was possible to supplement this podcast with one weekly (and shorter) additional reading over at Substack; for many reasons, that ambition proved impossible to maintain. Since an illness has kept me from recording a new episode this week, I thought it worthwhile collecting those six weeks of shorter readings here: 3 Poems from my long work-in-progress, The Great Year: “The Autumn Village,” “I was in Iceland centuries ago, ” “Smith Looks Up the Long Road” Two readings from Shakespeare: “Of comfort no man speak” (Richard II, act II scene 2), “All the world's a stage” (As You Like It, act II scene 7) 3 Poems on Work: Philip Levine (1928-2015): “Among Children,” Elma Mitchell (1919-2000), “Thoughts After Ruskin," Mary Robinson (1758-1800), “A London Summer Morning” Favorites from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets Three Poets & Mythology: Eavan Boland (1944-2020), “The Making of an Irish Goddess," Michael Longley (b. 1939) “The Butchers," Robert Pinsky (b. 1940), “The Figured Wheel” Blake & His Animals: Three passages from William Blake (1757-1827): one from Visions of the Daughters of Albion and the last two from Milton. I hope that plucking these three passages from his longer work can suggest how varied—not just how prophetic and opaque, but simply beautiful—so much of his poetry can be. Don't forget to support Human Voices Wake Us on Substack, where you can also get our newsletter and other extras. You can also support the podcast by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/support

"Proverbs of Limbo" is the third installment in Robert Pinsky's PoemJazz series, which combines elements of poetry and jazz.

Today's poem is by Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013), an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age".[3][4] Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller."[5] Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".[6]—Bio via Wikipedia Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Campbell McGrath is among South Florida's most revered poets recognized with the MacArthur Genius Award, a Kingsley Tufts poetry Award and by admirers from Robert Pinsky to Elizabeth Alexander. His newest collection is Fever of Unknown Origin and on this edition of The Literary Life, we celebrate its publication with a reading at the Coral Gables location of Books & Books. Introducing Campbell is Scott Cunningham, executive and artistic director of OMiami, which is building community around the power of poetry. Campbell McGrath is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems, and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. His writing has been recognized with a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award,” a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He lives with his wife in Miami Beach, and teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000 and author of The Figured Wheel and Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet (among other highly acclaimed works), shares his one true sentence from Hemingway's Paris Review interview.

Today's poem is Take This Poem by Elizabeth Willis. This episode was recorded live, in-person, at On Air Fest 2023. Onstage, Major described that “In coming to this role, I've been thinking a lot about how poetry shifts from the page to the voice. How the words hold different meanings written versus spoken. For when we speak out loud the words of the poets, we access their freedom and consciousness and rage for order. As my friend Robert Pinsky tells us, “poetry's medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.” It is a physical embodiment that changes us and the spaces we occupy. The poem creates an environment.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

The queens are joined by Randall Mann to discuss discomfort, cage-dancing, and how to deal. Support Breaking Form, if the spirit so moves you:Review Breaking Form on Apple Podcasts here.  Buy our books:Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Randall Mann is the author most recently of DEAL: New & Selected Poems (Copper Canyon, 2023). Read a review of the book published here in On the Seawall. And buy the book from Loyalty Bookstores, a Black-owned indie bookseller, here. Randy mentions his poem "In the Beginning" which has an epigraph from Laura Jensen. You can read that poem, and a few others, online here. Laura Jensen is the author of 3 books. Carnegie Mellon republished her second book, Memory, in 2006. You can read her poem "Heavy Snowfall in a Year Gone Past" here. And check out this reconsideration of Memory in The Rumpus here.Check out this essay on Gwendolyn Brooks's formalism and her literary reputation by A. Van Jordan on the Best American Poetry blog here.Read Elizabeth Bishop's villanelle "One Art" here, or watch John Murillo read the poem here.North of Boston is Robert Frost's second book of poems. It contains 17 poems, including "Mending Wall" and "The Death of the Hired Man.You can read the Marianne Moore poem "Silence" here. Or you can hear the poem read by Robert Pinsky.

by Robert Pinsky

What better way to bring back The Daily Poem than with a poem by one of my favorite poets, Seamus Heaney. Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age".[3][4] Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller."[5] Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".[6](Bio via Wikipedia) Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Erik Lawrence has toured the world as a saxophonist, flutist and composer, sometimes with his own original groups and often in support of a wide variety of legendary artists, from The Band, Levon Helm, Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello to Chico Hamilton and Sonny Sharrock, from Tibetans Yungchen Lamo and Nawhang Khechog to poet Robert Pinsky, from David Amram to the Spin Doctors, My Morning Jacket, Roger Waters, Joan Osborne, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Aaron Neville, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Miles, Henry Butler, Big Chief Russell Moore and countless others. He's currently a member of the legendary band Little Feat and Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra. In addition to a busy concert and recording schedule, Erik performs musically guided meditations, which he calls Sound Sanctuary. Often performed solo or with one, two or three other like minded musicians, these are intended to calm, uplift and respond to the listener and help them to attain a higher sense of peace and confidence. He also offers private sessions, and in both settings Erik engages the listener/participant to release stress, trauma, grief, conflict and anger. Erik has working with physical trauma, illness, migraines, end of life care, grief, with ailing or troubled pets, as well. Erik has given lectures and demonstrations at music therapy pain symposiums (recertification program), nursing continuing education, the New Jersey Piano Tuner's Guild, arts centers, yoga and healing centers, private and public universities and high schools, and in other formal and informal settings. http://www.eriklawrencemusic.com/ Natalie Brown: http://www.soundshealstudio.com http://www.facebook.com/soundshealstudio.com http://www.instagram.com/nataliebrownsoundsheal http://www.youtube.com/soundshealstudio Music by Natalie Brown, Hope & Heart http://www.youtu.be/hZPx6zJX6yA This episode is sponsored by The Om Shoppe. The OM Shoppe & Spa offers a vast array of Sound Healing and Vibrational Medicine tools for serious professionals and for those ready to make sound and vibration part of their ongoing lifestyle. More and more we are coming to understand that our individual wellness is a direct reflection of our personal vibration. How we care for ourselves, our physical bodies, our minds and our spirits. The OM Shoppe is ready to help you today in a variety of ways. They offer the countries largest showroom of Quartz Crystal Singing bowls, sound healing instruments and vibrational medicine tools. If you are ready to uplevel your sound healing practice The OM Shoppe is a great place to get guidance and direction. They are available to consult with you directly by phone or you can shop online. They really enjoy getting to know their clients and customers one on one to better help recommend the right sound healing tools in the right tones for you. Call them today or visit them at http://www.theomshoppe.com. If you are ever near Sarasota, Florida, do consider stopping in and visiting with them or enjoy a luxury spa treatment such as sound healing, energy work, massage, vibroacoustics or hypnotherapy. They truly offer a full holistic experience for practitioners and those seeking healing through natural means.

Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022) is the new memoir by former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky. Robert is the author of numerous poetry collections. Robert Pinsky is a celebrated poet, essayist, translator, teacher, and speaker. He served as the U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997-2000, during which time he founded the popular Favorite Poem Project. He is the author of many poetry collections, including the anthology The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently the collection At the Foundling Hospital (FSG, 2016). He's also the translator of the best-selling The Inferno of Dante. Robert is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate program at Boston University. In the words of the New York Times Sunday Book Review, “No other living American poet—no other living American, probably—has done so much to put poetry before the public eye.”  Jersey Breaks is a fascinating memoir, not least because Robert Pinsky's poetry and essays often play with the expectations and confines of autobiography and poetry itself. In kaleidoscopic, essayistic chapters, Robert Pinsky considers the experiences that make up his life and voice, while sharing a deep wisdom about how the places and words that make up our identity are always in motion.  You won't want to miss this beautiful conversation in which Robert Pinsky tells us that including everything means including our questions about everything, too. You can check out Jersey Breaks and other books by Robert Pinsky here at the library, or check out his website.  The Library is hosting a Favorite Poem Project Reading at the Library on Thursday, June 1, from 7:00—8:00 pm. If you are interested in being considered as a reader, please email me at favoritepoem@deerfieldlibrary.org with a favorite poem and why you chose it.  Or, sign up to attend as an audience member. We hope you enjoy our 60th interview episode! Each month (or so), we release an episode featuring a conversation with an author, artist, or other notable guests from Chicagoland or around the world. Learn more about the podcast on our podcast page. You can listen to all of our episodes in the player below or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you listen to podcasts. We welcome your comments and feedback—please send to podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. The Deerfield Public Library Podcast is hosted by Dylan Zavagno, Adult Services Coordinator at the library. We welcome your comments and feedback--please send to: podcast@deerfieldlibrary.org. More info at: http://deerfieldlibrary.org/podcast Follow us: Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube TikTok The Deerfield Public Library Podcast is a program from the Adult Services Department at the Library and may include Adult Language. 

Robert Pinsky discusses his memoir Jersey Breaks, and John and Mr. Pinksy compare some psychogeographic notes, as well as bragging rights.

Robert Pinsky is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Figured Wheel, and prose, including The Sounds of Poetry. He served as United States Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. He has edited several anthologies, most recently The Book of Poetry for Hard Times. His most recent book is his just-published memoir, Jersey Breaks. Pinsky teaches at Boston University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://robertpinskypoet.com Find the book and much more here: https://robertpinskypoet.com In the second hour, Kari Gunter-Seymour returns (ep. #48) to discuss her new book, Alone in the House of My Heart. https://www.karigunterseymourpoet.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt: Andhadhi is a unique kind of Tamil poetry constructed such that the last or ending word of each stanza becomes the first word of the next stanza . In some instances, the last word of the series of stanza becomes the beginning of the very first stanza , thus making the poem a true garland of stanza. Andha(m) means "end" and Adhi means "beginning." Next Week's Prompt: Write a poem about a landmark in your area. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age".[3][4]Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller."[5] Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".[6]Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Czesław Miłosz was born to Weronika and Aleksander Milosz on June 30, 1911, in Szetejnie, Lithuania (then under the domination of the Russian tsarist government). Milosz graduated from high school in 1929, and in 1930 his first poems were published in Alma Mater Vilnenis, a university magazine. In 1931 he cofounded the Polish avant-garde literary group "Zagary"; his first collection of verse appeared in 1933. He spent most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses.After the war, he came to the United States as a diplomat for the Polish communist government, working at the Polish consulate first in New York City, then in Washington D. C. In 1950 he was transferred to Paris, and the following year he requested and received political asylum. He spent the next decade in Paris as a freelance writer. In 1953 he published The Captive Mind (Alfred A. Knopf), and his novel, The Seizure of Power (Criterion Books, 1955), received the Prix Littéraire European from the Swiss Book Guild. In 1960 he moved to the United States to become a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He later became professor of Slavic languages and literature. He did not visit Poland again until 1981.In 1980, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors include an award for poetry translations from the Polish PEN Center in Warsaw, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has written virtually all of his poems in his native Polish, although his work was banned in Poland until after he won the Nobel Prize. He has also translated the works of other Polish writers into English, and has cotranslated his own works with such poets as Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky. His translations into Polish include portions of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) and works by Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Simone Weil, and Walt Whitman. He died on August 14, 2004.From https://poets.org/poet/czeslaw-milosz. For more information about Czesław Miłosz:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Elif Shafak about Milosz, at 02:08: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-025-elif-shafakEdward Hirsch about Milosz, at 18:58: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-173-edward-hirschSuketu Mehta about Milosz, at 16:00: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-079-suketu-mehta“The Separate Notebooks”: https://www.amazon.com/Separate-Notebooks-Czeslaw-Milosz/dp/0880010312/“Czeslaw Milosz”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz

In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talks with acclaimed war journalist and poet Tom Sleigh. The author of 11 books of poetry including The Kings Touch, Tom has enjoyed sustained critical praise since the appearance of first collection After One. He has also published translations, plays and two collections of his nonfiction prose, the most recent being The Land Between Two Rivers: Writing in an Age of Refugees. His mid-career turn to war journalism has garnered Sleigh a new audience while making him one America's essential poets for understanding our world today. He is also a Distinguished Professor in the MFA Program at Hunter College. Our conversation includes discussion of Frank Bidart, Thom Gunn and Robert Pinsky.

Recorded by Robert Pinsky for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 10, 2022. www.poets.org

James Lundy's book, The History of the Poetry Society of South Carolina: 1920 to 2021, is a chronicle of the first 100 years of the oldest state poetry society in America, the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Founded in Charleston in 1920 by DuBose Heyward, John Bennett, Josephine Pinckney, Hervey Allen, and Laura Bragg, the Society's first 101 seasons run from the Jazz Age to the COVID era, where everyone from Carl Sandburg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Ogden Nash, Billy Collins, Sherwood Anderson, Jericho Brown, Thornton Wilder, Robert Pinsky, and hundreds of others appeared before the membership.Talking with Walter Edgar, Lundy, also currently the Society's president, gives us an insider's view, with insights into the inner workings and disfunctions of the organization and its slow progress from a Whites-only organization of the segregated South founded in the aftermath of World War I and the Spanish Flu Pandemic, through the Roaring Twenties, into the darkness of the Great Depression, World War II, a resurgence during the Atomic Age, the turbulent Sixties, the decline of Charleston, its rebound into a tourist mecca, and into the present day.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Czeslaw Milosz was born to Weronika and Aleksander Milosz on June 30, 1911, in Szetejnie, Lithuania (then under the domination of the Russian tsarist government). Milosz graduated from high school in 1929, and in 1930 his first poems were published in Alma Mater Vilnenis, a university magazine. In 1931 he cofounded the Polish avant-garde literary group "Zagary"; his first collection of verse appeared in 1933. He spent most of World War II in Nazi-occupied Warsaw working for underground presses.After the war, he came to the United States as a diplomat for the Polish communist government, working at the Polish consulate first in New York City, then in Washington D. C. In 1950 he was transferred to Paris, and the following year he requested and received political asylum. He spent the next decade in Paris as a freelance writer. In 1953 he published The Captive Mind (Alfred A. Knopf), and his novel, The Seizure of Power (Criterion Books, 1955), received the Prix Littéraire European from the Swiss Book Guild. In 1960 he moved to the United States to become a lecturer in Polish literature at the University of California at Berkeley. He later became professor of Slavic languages and literature. He did not visit Poland again until 1981.In 1980, Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His other honors include an award for poetry translations from the Polish PEN Center in Warsaw, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He has written virtually all of his poems in his native Polish, although his work was banned in Poland until after he won the Nobel Prize. He has also translated the works of other Polish writers into English, and has cotranslated his own works with such poets as Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky. His translations into Polish include portions of the Bible (from Hebrew and Greek) and works by Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Simone Weil, and Walt Whitman. He died on August 14, 2004.From https://poets.org/poet/czeslaw-milosz. For more information about Czeslaw MIlosz:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:“Ars Poetica?”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49455/ars-poetica-56d22b8f31558“Czeslaw Milosz's Battle for Truth”: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/czeslaw-miloszs-battle-for-truth“Czeslaw Milosz”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57102/antique-56d23a4272507

We're getting an unusual amount of rain this week, with the potential for strong storms during the weekend. And after a summer of drought and wildfires, the rain's just got us feeling some type of way. So this all begs the question: Could this rain actually put a dent in this year's fire season or our drought? Guest: Dan Brekke, KQED editor and reporter This episode was produced by Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Kate Wolffe, and hosted by Alan Montecillo. More Resources: Sign up for Bay Area emergency alerts in your county. National Weather Service, San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey‘ 'Jersey Rain,' by Robert Pinsky

“Reading a poem silently instead of saying a poem is like the difference between staring at sheet music and actually humming or playing the music on an instrument." –Robert Pinsky (1940)

A walk out of poets and into the unknown world of experimental films! Matt and Jethro and joined by Michael Kent from The Internet Says It's True.

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age".[3][4]Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller."[5] Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".[6]Bio via Wikipedia See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

by Robert Pinsky

Paolo Pellegrini"Dante Alighieri"Una vitaEinaudi Editorehttps://www.einaudi.it/Paolo Pellegrini ospite di "danteaverona.it" con due incontri:il 23 marzo dialogherà con il regista Pupi Avatiil 25 marzo dialogherà con il dantista Zygmunt BaranskiDantedìGiovedì 25 marzo Verona dedica al Sommo Poeta un non-stop streamingcon ospiti, letture, dialoghi, video e sorprese http://www.danteaverona.it/Per il Dantedì, giovedì 25 marzo tutta l'Italia risuonerà delle parole e dei versi del Sommo Poeta. Il Comune di Verona celebra l'evento con letture, dialoghi, conferenze, video, in una giornata in streaming ricca di appuntamenti. Studiosi illustri italiani e stranieri, attori, esperti di storia dell'arte medioevale, italianisti e dantisti, musicisti, si alterneranno da mattina a sera, all'insegna del pensiero di colui che oltre alla nostra bella lingua, ci ha trasmesso un patrimonio di valori ancora importante per la contemporaneità. Uno per tutti: Considerate la vostra semenza / fatti non foste per viver come bruti / ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza (Inferno, XXVI, 118-120).Verona fu per Dante seconda casa dopo l'esilio da Firenze: la Commedia è ricca di riferimenti alla città veneta e ai suoi personaggi storici, in particolare a Cangrande della Scala, signore di Verona.È Cacciaguida, antenato di Dante, a parlargli di Cangrande, nel Paradiso, quando gli profetizza l'esilio da Firenze e il rifugio a Verona, sotto la protezione dei Della Scala, e in particolare di Cangrande, uomo dalle notevoli virtù militari, politico scaltro e generoso mecenate.Nel secondo decennio del Trecento Dante risiedette a lungo a Verona e a lui dedicò il Paradiso. L'Epistola che gli indirizzò, in latino, contiene la dedica della terza Cantica: «…e perciò molto a lungo esaminai i poveri doni che potevo farvi e ne misi qualcuno da parte e poi li riesaminai attentamente domandandomi quale fosse il più degno di voi e a voi più gradito. E non riuscii a trovare niente tanto adatto a vostra altezza quanto la suprema cantica della Comedìa che s'adorna del titolo di Paradiso. Questa, con la presente epistola che assolve perciò le funzioni di un epigramma di dedica, metto sotto il vostro nome, questa vi offro, questa vi affido» (Epistola a Cangrande, XIII, 10-11).Aspettando il Dantedì, martedì 23 marzo alle ore 17, sul sito delle manifestazioni veronesi in memoria di Dante (danteaverona.it) ci sarà un ospite d'eccezione: il maestro Pupi Avati.Dopo i saluti istituzionali dell'assessore alla cultura Francesca Briani, il regista dialogherà con il professor Paolo Pellegrini dell'Università di Verona, sul suo nuovo film che porterà in televisione la vita di Dante Alighieri. Modera l'incontro la giornalista Elisa Innocenti.Il programma della giornataApre la giornata La Verona di Dante: un viaggio in video con la regia di Fabrizio Arcuri e le musiche del compositore Giulio Ragno Favero, per condurre il pubblico nei luoghi del Poeta in città, con la narrazione della giornalista Francesca Barra che dà voce a un racconto, a partire da un testo originale della scrittrice Ginevra Lamberti. A intervallare il racconto, brani danteschi letti dall'attore Claudio Santamaria.L'intera giornata a partire dalla mattina sarà animata dal Dante's box. Voci e suoni dalla Divina Commedia, tracce audio di 15 minuti ciascuna, che catapultano nella modernità 21 canti della Commedia. Le voci di attori e ospiti speciali come Lino Guanciale, Filippo Nigro, Isabella Ragonese, Vinicio Marchioni e Leo Gullotta si alternano, a partire dalle ore 9, agli altri appuntamenti della giornata, permettendo agli spettatori di immergersi nei versi danteschi, resi più vividi da musiche originali. Il regista Fabrizio Arcuri e il musicista e compositore Giulio Ragno Favero hanno infatti immaginato un percorso nelle Cantiche a partire da una sonorizzazione che ne esalta i passaggi. Alle ore 11 Francesca Rossi, storica dell'arte, direttrice dei Musei Civici di Verona, presenta, insieme alla collega Dagmar Korbacher, direttrice del Kupferstichkabinett dei Musei Statali di Berlino, l'immagine coordinata elaborata per le celebrazioni veronesi, legata alla mostra diffusa che animerà i luoghi danteschi della città nel corso dell'anno. L'immagine è ispirata a uno dei disegni di Sandro Botticelli per l'illustrazione della cantica del Paradiso che, eccezionalmente, il museo di Berlino renderà disponibile per la sezione della mostra intitolata Tra Dante e Shakespeare: il mito di Verona, in preparazione alla Galleria d'Arte Moderna “Achille Forti” (7 maggio-3 ottobre 2021). Le due direttrici racconteranno la storia dello straordinario nucleo di disegni botticelliani entrati nel 1882 nelle collezioni statali berlinesi, soffermandosi sulle ragioni per cui queste opere occupano un ruolo chiave nel progetto scientifico dell'esposizione veronese. A seguire un video-assaggio in anteprima della mostra Dante negli archivi. L'Inferno di Mazur allestita al Museo di Castelvecchio, a cura di Francesca Rossi, Daniela Brunelli, Donatella Boni (fino al 3 ottobre 2021), che propone al pubblico le 41 acqueforti e acquetinte che l'artista americano Michael Mazur produsse ispirandosi ai Canti dell'Inferno. Alle opere sono accostati brani danteschi tradotti dal poeta e scrittore statunitense Robert Pinsky, amico di Mazur. Alle 14.30 la filologa Lucia Battaglia Ricci, già docente all'Università di Pisa, membro del Comitato Scientifico per l'Edizione nazionale dei Commenti Danteschi, e autrice di numerose pubblicazioni tra cui Dante per Immagini (Einaudi) tiene una lezione per immagini dal titolo La Commedia e gli artisti: il caso Ugolino. Potente e insuperato intreccio di sublime patetico e orrore tragico, la storia di Ugolino è forse quella che ha goduto di più duraturo successo presso gli artisti che nel corso del tempo hanno tentato di tradurre in immagini le straordinarie invenzioni dell'Alighieri. Alle 16.30 Omaggio a Francesca, videoconferenza dell'italianista Natascia Tonelli, dell'Università di Siena, che riflette sulla prima anima incontrata da Dante fra i dannati, Francesca da Rimini, protagonista di uno degli amori più celebri della letteratura. Alcuni studiosi ne deplorano la personalità sostenendo che Dante la raffiguri come cattiva lettrice, un'intellettuale di provincia un po' attardata, e propongono per il suo personaggio la definizione di “Bovary del Duecento”. Secondo Natascia Tonelli, invece, i versi di Dante tratteggiano Francesca come una donna colta, che dà prova di conoscere la tradizione classica e la letteratura romanza, narrativa e lirica: ne incarna i valori con autonomia di giudizio e, con competente personalità, rivendica le proprie scelte.A seguire ascolteremo, lette dall'attore Marco Pagani, le parole di Umberto Eco da Diario Minimo "Dolenti declinare", rapporto di lettura destinato all'editore che dovrà decidere la pubblicazione di un nuovo testo... la Divina Commedia di tal Alighieri Dante. Il video è stato concesso in anteprima dagli autori del canale YouTube "Incursioni letterarie".La chiusura della giornata, alle 17.30, è affidata al dialogo tra il dantista Zygmunt Baranski dell'Università di Cambridge e il filologo Paolo Pellegrini dell'Università di Verona, autore del recentissimo libro Dante Alighieri. Una vita (Einaudi). La presentazione del volume è occasione per i due studiosi di confrontarsi sulle più recenti ricostruzioni biografiche del Sommo Poeta, sul rapporto di Dante con la realtà storica e culturale del Medioevo, sulla necessità di coniugare le esigenze della ricerca scientifica e quelle dell'alta divulgazione. Presenta l'incontro l'assessore alla cultura Francesca Briani.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Glass by Robert Pinsky, US Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000.

A reading of Robert Pinsky’s poem, “The Figured Wheel.” Buy his Selected Poems here: www.amazon.com/dp/0374533164 Any comments, or suggestions for readings I should make in later episodes, can be emailed to humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. I assume that the small amount of work presented in each episode constitutes fair use. Publishers, authors, or other copyright holders who would prefer to not have their work presented here can also email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com, and I will remove the episode immediately.

in which Steven and i talk about poetic theory, anime, and how other art mediums can influence poetry for an obscene amount of time... twitter: @sdleyva Little Patuxent Review: https://littlepatuxentreview.org/ other things referenced: Fences by August Wilson - http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/327272/fences-by-august-wilson/9780735216686 The Place Promised in Our Early Days by Makoto Shinkai - http://www.crunchyroll.com/the-place-promised-in-our-early-days Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett - http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html Five Came Back - https://www.netflix.com/title/80049928 The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck - https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Iris-Louise-Gluck/dp/0880013346 "Have Your Prayed" by Li-Young Lee - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52208 Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky - https://www.tupelopress.org/product/dancing-in-odessa/ "Responsibilities of the poet" by Robert Pinsky - http://harpers.org/archive/1987/08/responsibilities-of-the-poet/ Proofs and Theories by Lousie Gluck - https://www.amazon.com/Proofs-Theories-Louise-Gluck/dp/0880014423 Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud - http://www.jessethompsonart.com/artpage/Pre_C_drawing_Video_files/Understanding%20Comics%20(The%20Invisible%20Art)%20By%20Scott%20McCloud.pdf On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell - http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970823&content=reviews "Playing Levee" by Steven Leyva - http://www.scalawagmagazine.org/articles/playing-levee "Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow" by Robert Duncan - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/46317 "Pantoum of the Great Depression" by Donald Justice - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/58080 Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke by Susan Napier - http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780312238629 mukokuseki - http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Mukokuseki mono no aware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware

Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky describes himself as a "composer" who considers poetry to be first and foremost a vocal art, and his work seeks to blur the distinctions between language and music by emphasizing the rhythms and innate physicality of recited verse in a jazz context. In this performance for the 22nd Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University, Pinsky's reading is accompanied by a talented trio of PLNU students. The music - a blend of rehearsed and improvised - employs a variety of jazz styles, sometimes sympathetic and sometimes in playful counterpoint, but always responsive to the poet's distinctive voice. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30820]

In this week's episode, I talk to the poets Rita Dove and Robert Pinsky, and share the reading they gave together at Miami Book Fair International.   TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Listen to my previous interview with Robert Pinsky here.

Luke is back! He joins us from the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. Andrew offers him advice on how to handle a road trip with Robert Pinsky and how to survive a 4th of July weekend alone. Plus: guacamole controversies, bubble wrap nontroversies, and a debate over polyamory.

On this week's show, I present my interview with Sharon Olds, and my interview with Robert Pinsky, plus I share Robert Pinsky and Laurence Hobgood's performance of Creole. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES I am in the running for the "Best of 2013" show of Jesse Bradley's reading series, There Will be Words. The current poll is here until midnight, January 6. The Drunken Odyssey now has a youtube channel. In the New York Times's Bit blog, David Steitfield has wrung his hands about the analytics coming out of subscription services for ebook libraries. There is a nice still photo of Keria Knightly from the film of Pride and Prejudice. Amiri Baraka seems to be recovering after his hospital visit last week, according to The New York Daily News. The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant (my co-host of the mailbag episodes), is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of this stellar story collection.