Poet and performer Robert Pinsky
The 2015 Lit Fest welcomes poet Robert Pinsky. The fest is March 25-27.
All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors will be available for purchase after each program, and at Little Professor Book Center. See the schedule for Ohio University Spring Literary Festival, also featuring essayists Dorothy Allison and Brian Doyle, novelist Charles Johnson, and poet Marie Howe.
Thursday, March 26, Baker Center Ballroom
- 8:30 p.m. Robert Pinsky Lecture & Performance
CLOSING NIGHT! March 27, Baker Center Theater
- 7:30 p.m. Robert Pinsky Reading
About Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky was born and raised in Long Branch, NJ. He graduated from Long Branch High School, as had his parents, and went on to college at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and then to graduate work at Stanford, where he held a Stegner Fellowship.
His Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux) was published in 2011. His previous books of poetry include Gulf Music (2008), Jersey Rain (2000), The Want Bone (1990) and The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996. His best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante (1994) was a Book-of-the-Month-Club Editor’s Choice and received both the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. His prose books include The Life of David (2005), The Situation of Poetry (1976) and The Sounds of Poetry (1998).
The CD “PoemJazz,” with Grammy-winning pianist Laurence Hobgood, is released by Circumstantial Productions. Pinsky also has performed reading poems with Ben Allison, Bobby Bradford, Vijay Iyer, Mike Manieri, Stan Strickland and other jazz musicians.
Among his awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Prize, the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago, the Italian Premio Capri, the PEN-Volcker Award and the Korean Manhae Prize. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center.
Pinsky founded The Favorite Poem Project, including the videos that can be seen at www.favoritepoem.org, while serving an unprecedented three terms as United States Poet Laureate.
About Spring Literary Festival
Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world’s finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. The three-day spring festival is held on the Ohio University campus in Athens, OH. It is sponsored by the Creative Writing program in the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts & Sciences.
For more information, contact David Wanczyk, Spring Literary Festival Coordinator, at davidwanczyk@gmail.com.
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