Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is an American poet and critic. His most recent books include At the Founding Hospital (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) and Selected Poems (2012). He was US Poet Laureate from 1997 – 2000. As Laureate he set up the ‘Favorite Poem Project’ which saw people from all walks of life selecting and recording a reading of their favourite poem. An anthology Americans’ Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology proved highly successful.