Robert Pinsky reads from his new collection, Proverbs of Limbo.
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Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. In person readings will take place at 56 Brattle on Mondays at 8pm. Admission is $5, tickets are available at the door.
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky will be reading from his most recent book, Proverbs of Limbo. A poet, essayist, translator, teacher and U.S. Poet Laureate, his many titles include At the Foundling Hospital, Selected Poems, Gulf Music, Jersey Rain, and Singing School: Learning to Read (and Write) Poetry by Studying with the Masters. Among his many awards are the PEN/Voelcker Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Lenore Marshall Prize, Italy’s Premio Capri, the Korean Manhae Award, and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago. Pinsky is a professor of English and creative writing in the graduate writing program at Boston University. In 2015 the university named him a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor, the highest honor bestowed on senior faculty members who are actively involved in teaching, research, scholarship, and university civic life.