Interviews

“In Intervals: Robert Pinsky and Tom Sleigh in Conversation”
Tom Sleigh conducted this interview with United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky on October 1, 1997, in West Newton, Massachusetts.

“Pinsky on His Religious Background”
Interview with Pinsky about his religious background, 1997.

“Online Interviews with Robert Pinsky”
Three different online interviews with Pinsky, done for The Cortland Review, FEED magazine, and for poetry journal Meridian, 1998.

“America’s Wordsmith”
In a 1997 discussion with Elizabeth Farnsworth, America's Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky, discusses the state of poetry in America, his new job and poetry in cyberspace.

“The Poet as City Planner: An Interview with Robert Pinsky”
Interview with Pinsky done in 2001 by Tony Barnstone and Shawn Fitzpatrick for “Poetry Flash.”

“The Poet Laureate and the Fraygrants: Robert Pinsky goes Toe-to-Toe with Participants in ‘The Fray' "
From Slate Magazine (which is edited by Pinsky). Online interview with Robert Pinksy and chatroom users of ‘The Fray’ (Sept. 1998).

“A Conversation with Robert Pinsky”
Robert Pinsky and his composer collaborator Tod Machover offer a glimpse of their opera-in-progress, Death and the Powers.

"MIT World: A Conversation with Robert Pinsky"
Streaming video of Robert Pinsky appearing at MIT to discuss his opera-in-progress, Death and the Powers; the rationale behind his Favorite Poem Project; the difficulty of writing a good poem. Pinsky also reads from The Life of David. More about Death and the Powers is here.

"Washington Post Book World Live"
Transcript of discussion with Washington Post writers and reviewers in April 2006.


Biographies, Reviews, Prose

“The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide and Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry ”
Two works reviewed by Dr. Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton, Department of English, Southwestern University.

“Robert Pinsky”
General website with brief bio of his works and accomplishments. Has links to more information.

“Robert Pinsky: United States Poet Laureate, Translator, Essayist, and Teacher”
Biographical information about Robert Pinsky.

“Robert Pinsky”
From Poetry for the Rest of Us. Includes a biography of Robert Pinsky.

“Robert Pinsky”
Robert Pinsky Bio from Wikipedia.org.

“Biography of Robert Pinsky”
From American Poems (2005).

“Poetry and American Memory”
An essay entitled “Poetry and American Memory” by Robert Pinsky.

“Robert Pinsky on Jan Richman’s Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything”
Jan Richman was the winner of the 1994 Walt Whitman Award for her first collection of poems, Because the Brain Can Be Talked Into Anything (Louisiana State University Press, 1995). The judge for the award was Robert Pinsky, who wrote this citation.

“Pinsky: U.S. a Great Nation, But Still Engaged in Becoming a Great People”
Link to commencement speech from Stanford University website.

“Robert Pinsky”
Various readings done by Robert Pinsky along with discussions and interviews from the Online NewsHour (website of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer).

“Poet’s Choice”
Article by Pinsky in the Washington Post (June 11, 2006).

“The American Town: Dreams and Nightmares”
Robert Pinsky and the Campbell Lecture Series at Rice University.

“Robert Pinsky Visits WITS Classrooms”
Pinsky visits WITS (Writers in the Schools) classrooms.

“Stanley Kuntiz: A Poet Til the Very End”
Obituary for American poet Stanley Kunitz written by Robert Pinsky.

“I, Too, Dislike It: Slate Celebrates Poets Who Don’t Like Poetry”
From Slate Magazine. Article written by Robert Pinsky (April 2005).

“Reading the Poetry of Meng Chao”
From Slate Magazine. Article written by Robert Pinsky (April 2004).

“A Little Anthology of Love Poems: What To Read Your Sweetheart on Valentine’s Day”
From Slate Magazine. Article written by Robert Pinsky (Feb. 2005).

“Poems of War: Six Writers and Editors on Poems of War”
From Slate Magazine. Features commentaries by Robert Pinsky, Alice Quinn, Judith Shulevitz, Dan Chiasson, Anthony Swofford, and Robert Fagles (April 2003).

“Computers and Poetics”
From MIT Media Lab Colloquium. Article written by Robert Pinsky (February 1997).

“Diary: A Weeklong Electronic Journal”
From Slate Magazine. Chronicles Robert Pinsky’s daily diary entries (Dec. 1998).

“The Psalmist King: Warrior, lover, father, poet: the many faces of Israel’s greatest and all-too-human monarch.”
From The Washington Post, a book review of Pinsky’s book The Life of David. Article written by Ari L. Goldman (Nov. 2005).