Poetry Reading: Robert Pinsky
The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the New England Poetry Club.
Robert Pinsky’s recent book of poems is Proverbs of Limbo. PoemJazz album of the same title is available on Spotify and Apple Music. His autobiographical prose book is Jersey Breaks. This reading will feature a special musical performance by the inimitable Stan Strickland.
Robert’s honors include the Korean Manhae Award, the Italian Premio Capri and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago. He has honorary degrees from institutions including Stanford University, The New School, and the University of Michigan.
As United States Poet Laureate, he founded the Favorite Poem Project, with brief videos in which thousands of American readers, of varying backgrounds, ages, and regions, read poems they admire by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Frank O’Hara, Langston Hughes, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Glück, Siegfried Sassoon.
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This event is free to attend.
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