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Select Honors and Awards
In
his poems Pinsky talks, with democratic warmth and intimacy, to the
common things of this world. His extraordinary poems remind us that
he has always embodied the very ideal he proposes for what a poet can
do.
-Lloyd Schwarz, The Boston Phoenix
 Jewish
Cultural Foundation Achievement Award, 2006
Manhae
Foundation Prize, 2006
National
Book Critics Circle Award nominee, 2005
Phi Beta
Kappa Award, 2003
United
States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress,
1997-2000
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999
American
Academy of Arts and Letters Award, 1999
Harold
Washington Literary Award, 1999
Ambassador
Book Award of the English Speaking Union for The Figured Wheel,
1997
Lenore
Marshall Award, 1997
Pulitzer
Prize nominee for The Figured Wheel, 1997
Shelly
Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, 1996
Howard
Morton Landon translation award for The Inferno of Dante: A New
Verse Translation, 1994
Los Angeles
Times Book Award for The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation,
1994
Poetry
magazine's Oscar Blumenthal Prize
William
Carlos Williams Award
Guggenheim
Foundation Fellowship, 1980
Saxifrage
Prize, 1980
National
Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1974.
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