A man wearing a ruffled white satin poet shirt.

A poet shirt (also known as a poet blouse or pirate shirt) is a type of shirt made as a loose-fitting blouse with full bishop sleeves, usually decorated with large frills on the front and on the cuffs.^[1] Typically, it has a laced-up V-neck opening, designed to pull over the head, but can have a full-length opening fastened by buttons. The collar may be standing or folded over with points. Fabrics commonly used in its manufacture include linen, cotton, velvet and satin, while frills may be of the same fabric or of lace. Originally intended as a male garment, it is also worn by women today (though still interchangeably referred to as both a "shirt" and a "blouse" regardless of which gender is wearing it).^[2]

History[link]

Although descended from the shirts worn by men in the 17th and 18th centuries, the modern poet blouse combines two aspects: the fineness of ruffled shirts worn as an undergarment by aristocrats and the informality of plain shirts worn (normally open-necked) as a standalone garment by workmen. Inspired by Romanticism^[3][4], it was a popular style for boys during the 19th century^[5] and for the pseudo-historical costumes worn by Hollywood actors portraying characters such as swordsmen or pirates during the 20th century.

A tailored version of the poet shirt became highly fashionable for young men during the 1960s, particularly in London. Jane Ormsby Gore described her discussions at that time with her then husband, Michael Rainey, who owned a men's clothing shop in Chelsea: "We were very influenced by Byron … those Byron shirts with frilly fronts and big sleeves".^[6] Epitomised by bands such as Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, the vogue for androgynous frilly blouses played a significant part in the New Romantic male fashion of the 1980s.^[7] Today, the style remains popular in some modern movements such as the Goth subculture, where it may be valued simply for its romantic or swashbuckling image, intended as part of a themed costume (e.g. vampire) or worn in defiance of mainstream conventions as a deliberate expression of gender ambiguity (in the same tradition as glam rock^[8]).

A ruffled poet shirt, often worn with a wide belt or other item of clothing traditionally associated with pirates, has been the central theme of a spate of fashion trends stimulated by the Pirates of the Caribbean series of adventure films, the first of which was released in 2003.^[9]

References[link]

Barry Keenan is an American businessman who is best known as the mastermind behind the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr.^[1]

At the age of 21, Keenan was already successful in the world of business, as well as being the youngest member of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange.^[1] A car accident left Keenan penniless and addicted to painkillers; eventually leading him to hatch the scheme and enlist help in the kidnap-for-ransom plan.^[2] Keenan, along with Johnny Irwin and Joe Amsler, conspired to kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr.^[3] Keenan had a psychiatric condition in which he heard voices, and felt that his plan was blessed by God; since he intended to eventually pay the money back, he did not think the kidnapping was immoral.^[4] After successfully nabbing Sinatra Jr. from the Harrah's Lodge at South Lake Tahoe, Keenan made contact with Frank Sinatra, Sr. to make ransom arrangements. Sinatra initially offered one million dollars, but Keenan demanded $240,000 instead; significantly less.^[5] Despite the nature of the crime, Keenan illogically felt that he was bringing the Sinatra family closer together and assisting the Sinatras in other intangible ways.^[4][5]

Sinatra paid the ransom and the three men released his son. Within days, all three conspirators were apprehended by the FBI. Keenan was sentenced to life plus seventy-five years in prison for his crimes, but only served four and a half years before he was released,^[6] because it was determined that he was legally insane at the time of the crime.^[4]

After his release, Keenan went on to become successful as a real estate developer.^[7] He is currently writing a book about the affair, with all proceeds going to charity, due for publication in 2013. The event was made into the basis for a Showtime movie released in 2003, Stealing Sinatra, starring David Arquette and William H. Macy^[4]

References[link]

Shane L. Koyczan (born 22 May 1976) is a Canadian poet and writer. Born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Koyczan grew up in Penticton, British Columbia. In 2000, he became the first Canadian to win the Individual Championship title at the US National Poetry Slam.^[1] Together with Mighty Mike McGee and C. R. Avery, he is the co-founder of spoken word, "talk rock" trio, Tons of Fun University (T.O.F.U.). In August 2007 Shane Koyczan and his work were the subject of an episode of the television documentary series Heart of a Poet, produced by Canadian filmmaker Maureen Judge for broadcaster Bravo!.^[2]

Koyczan has published two books, poetry collection Visiting Hours, and Stickboy, a novel in verse. Visiting Hours was selected by both the Guardian and Globe and Mail for their 2005 Best Books of the Year lists.

Koyczan’s "We Are More" and Ivan Bielinski’s "La première fois", commissioned by the Canadian Tourism Commission, were unveiled at Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on 1 July 2007.^[3] Koyczan performed a variation on his piece at the Opening Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.^[4]

Koyczan also collaborated on Vancouver-based musician Dan Mangan's Roboteering EP on the track Tragic Turn of Events - Move Pen Move.

Bibliography[link]

• I'm Calling you friend
• Help Wanted
• I Drew That For You
• Visiting Hours (2005, House of Parlance Media; ISBN 978-0-9738131-0-4)
• Stickboy ( 2008, House of Parlance Media ISBN 978-0-9738131-6-6)^[5]

Discography[link]

• Perfect
• 2nd Time Around
• Visiting Hours
• American Pie Chart
• Shut Up And Say Something

With Tons of Fun University (ToFU):

• The Them They're Talking About (2005)
• Hard to Tell (2009)

As Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long:

• A Pretty Decent Cape in My Closet (2007)
  • includes "The Crickets Have Arthritis"

As Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long:

• "Remembrance Year" (2012)

Filmography[link]

• The 2000 National Poetry Slam Finals (2000, The Wordsmith Press)

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long at MySpace
• Text of "We Are More", as recited at the 2010 Olympics opening

Carl Sandburg
Sandburg in 1955
Born	(1878-01-06)January 6, 1878 Galesburg, Illinois
Died	July 22, 1967(1967-07-22) (aged 89) Flat Rock, North Carolina
Occupation	Journalist, author
Nationality	American
Ethnicity	Swedish
Alma mater	Lombard College
Notable work(s)	Abraham Lincoln: The War Years, Rootabaga Stories
Notable award(s)	Three Pulitzer Prizes
Spouse(s)	Lilian Steichen
Children	Margaret, Helga, and Janet

Carl Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He was the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and another for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."

Biography[link]

Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, to parents of Swedish ancestry. At the age of thirteen he left school and began driving a milk wagon. From the age of about fourteen until he was seventeen or eighteen, he worked as a porter at the Union Hotel barbershop in Galesburg.^[1] After that he was on the milk route again for 18 months. He then became a bricklayer and a farm laborer on the wheat plains of Kansas.^[2] After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg,^[3] he became a hotel servant in Denver, then a coal-heaver in Omaha. He began his writing career as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News. Later he wrote poetry, history, biographies, novels, children's literature, and film reviews. Sandburg also collected and edited books of ballads and folklore. He spent most of his life in the Midwest before moving to North Carolina.

Sandburg volunteered to go to the military and was stationed in Puerto Rico with the 6th Illinois Infantry during the Spanish–American War, disembarking at Guánica, Puerto Rico on July 25, 1898. Sandburg was never actually called to battle. He attended West Point for just two weeks, before failing a mathematics and grammar exam. Sandburg returned to Galesburg and entered Lombard College, but left without a degree in 1903.

He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and joined the Social Democratic Party, the name by which the Socialist Party of America was known in the state. Sandburg served as a secretary to Emil Seidel, socialist mayor of Milwaukee from 1910 to 1912.

Sandburg met Lilian Steichen at the Social Democratic Party office in 1907, and they married the next year. Lilian's brother was the photographer Edward Steichen. Sandburg with his wife, whom he called Paula, raised three daughters.

The Sandburgs moved to Harbert, Michigan, and then to suburban Chicago, Illinois. They lived in Evanston, Illinois, before settling at 331 S. York Street in Elmhurst, Illinois, from 1919 to 1930. Sandburg wrote three children's books in Elmhurst, Rootabaga Stories, in 1922, followed by Rootabaga Pigeons (1923), and Potato Face (1930). Sandburg also wrote Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, a two volume biography in 1926, The American Songbag (1927), and a book of poems Good Morning, America (1928) in Elmhurst. The family moved to Michigan in 1930. The Sandburg house at 331 W. York Street, Elmhurst was demolished and the site is now a parking lot. '

Sandburg's collection, The War Years was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. His Complete Poems won him a second Pulitzer Prize in 1951.^[4]

In 1945 he moved to Connemara, a 246 acre rural estate in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Here he produced a little over a third of his total published work, and lived with his wife, daughters, and two grandchildren until dying of natural causes in 1967.

Sandburg supported the civil rights movement, and contributed to the NAACP.

Works[link]

Rootabaga Stories by Sandburg

Carl Sandburg rented a room in this house where he lived for three years while he wrote the poem "Chicago". It's now a Chicago landmark.^[5]

Much of Carl Sandburg's poetry, such as "Chicago", focused on Chicago, Illinois, where he spent time as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and the Day Book. His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders."

Sandburg is also remembered by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons, a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga Stories were born of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so populated his stories with skyscrapers, trains, corn fairies and the "Five Marvelous Pretzels".

Sandburg earned Pulitzer Prizes for his collection The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, Corn Huskers, and for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years).^[4] He recorded excerpts from the biography and some of Lincoln's speeches for Caedmon Records in New York City in May 1957. He was awarded a Grammy Award in 1959 for Best Performance – Documentary Or Spoken Word (Other Than Comedy) for his recording of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with the New York Philharmonic.

Folk Music[link]

Sandburg's 1927 anthology, the American Songbag, enjoyed enormous popularity, going through many editions; and Sandburg himself was perhaps the first American urban folk singer, accompanying himself on solo guitar at lectures and poetry recitals, and in recordings, long before the first or even the second folk revival movements (of the 1940s and 1960s, respectively).^[6] According to musicologist Judith Tick:

As a populist poet, Sandburg bestowed a powerful dignity on what the '20s called the “American scene” in a book he called a “ragbag of stripes and streaks of color from nearly all ends of the earth . . . rich with the diversity of the United States.” Reviewed widely in journals ranging from the New Masses to Modern Music, the American Songbag influenced a number of musicians. Pete Seeger, who calls it a “landmark,” saw it “almost as soon as it came out.” The composer Elie Siegmeister took it to Paris with him in 1927, and he and his wife Hannah “were always singing these songs. That was home. That was where we belonged.”^[7]

Legacy[link]

Carl Sandburg's boyhood home in Galesburg is now operated by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site. The site contains the cottage Sandburg was born in, a modern visitor's center, and small garden with a large stone called Remembrance Rock, under which he and his wife Lilian's ashes are buried.^[8] Sandburg's home of 22 years in Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina, is preserved by the National Park Service as the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. Carl Sandburg College is located in Sandburg's birthplace of Galesburg, Illinois.

Carl Sandburg Village was a Chicago urban renewal project of the 1960s located in the Near North Side, Chicago. Financed by the city, it is located between Clark and LaSalle St. between Division Street and North Ave. Solomon & Cordwell, architects. In 1979, Carl Sandburg Village was converted to condominium ownership.

Elmhurst, Illinois, renamed the former Elmhurst Junior High School as 'Carl Sandburg Middle School,' in his honor in 1960. Sandburg spoke at the dedication ceremony. He resided at 331 S. York Street in Elmhurst from 1919 to 1930. The house was demolished and the site is a parking lot.^[9] In 1954, Carl Sandburg High School was dedicated in Orland Park, Illinois. Mr. Sandburg was in attendance, and stretched what was supposed to be a one hour event into several hours, regaling students with songs and stories. Years later, he returned to the school with no identification and, appearing to be a hobo, was thrown out by the principal. When he later returned with I.D., the embarrassed principal canceled the rest of the school day and held an assembly to honor the visit.^{[citation needed]} In 1959, Carl Sandburg Junior High School was opened in Golden Valley, Minnesota. Carl Sandburg attended the dedication of the school. In 1988 the name was changed to Sandburg Middle School servicing grades 6, 7, and 8. Originally built with a capacity for 1,800 students the school now has 1,100 students enrolled. Sandburg Middle school was one of the first schools in the state of Minnesota to offer accelerated learning programs for gifted students.^[10] In December 1961, Carl Sandburg Elementary School was dedicated in San Bruno, California. Again, Sandburg came for the ceremonies and was clearly impressed with the faces of the young children, who gathered around him.^[11] The school was closed in the 1980s, due to falling enrollments in the San Bruno Park School District.

In Neshaminy School District of lower Bucks County resides the secondary institution Carl Sandburg Middle School. Located in the lobby is a finished split tree trunk with the quote engraved lengthwise horizontally: "Man is born with rainbows in his heart and you'll never read him unless you consider rainbows". Another secondary school by the same name is located south of Alexandria, Virginia, and is part of the Fairfax County Public Schools School District. Sandburg Halls is a student residence hall at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The building consists of 4 high rise towers with a total housing capacity of 2,700 students. It has an exterior plaque on Sandburg's roles as an organizer for the Social Democratic Party and as personal secretary to Emil Seidel, Milwaukee's first Socialist mayor. There are several other schools named after Sandburg in Illinois, including those in Wheaton, Orland Park, Springfield, Mundelein, and Joliet.

Sandburg quotation on historical roots: in Deaf Smith County Museum in Hereford, Texas

On January 6, 1978, the 100th anniversary of his birth, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring Sandburg. The spare design consists of a profile originally drawn by his friend William A. Smith in 1952, along with Sandburg's own distinctive autograph.^[12]

Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign^[13] possesses the Carl Sandburg collection and archives. The bulk of the collection was purchased directly from Carl Sandburg and his family, with many smaller collections having been donated by his family and purchased from outside sources.

Carl Sandburg Library first opened in Livonia, Michigan, on December 10, 1961. The name was recommended by the Library Commission as an example of an American author representing the best of literature of the Midwest. Carl Sandburg had taught at the University of Michigan for a time.^[14]

Funded by the State of Illinois, Amtrak in October 2006 added a second train on the Chicago–Quincy (via Galesburg and Macomb) route. Called the Carl Sandburg, this new train joined the "Illinois Zephyr" on the Chicago–Quincy route.^[15]

Galesburg opened Sandburg Mall in 1974, named in honor of Sandburg.

References to Sandburg[link]

• Sufjan Stevens's "Come on! Feel the Illinoise! Part I: The Columbian Exposition Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream" (from Illinois).
• Richard Armour's poem "Driving in a Fog; or Carl Sandburg Must Have Been a Pedestrian" published in the January 1953 Westways.
• Sandburg's "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come" from The People, Yes was a slogan of the German peace movement.^[16]
• Bob Dylan's October 31, 1964 performance of "Talkin' World War III Blues".
• "Prairie" is featured in The Song and The Slogan.
• Dan Zanes's Parades and Panoramas: 25 Songs Collected by Carl Sandburg for the American Songbag.
• "Grass" was covered by Bread and Roses on their 2004 demo The Workplace Is a Battlefield.
• Peter Louis van Dijk's "Windy City Songs", based on the Chicago poems was performed by the Chicago Children's Choir and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Choir in 2007.^{[citation needed]}.
• Andrew W.K.'s song "The McLaughlin Groove"
• Steven Spielberg claimed that the face of E.T. was based on a composite of Sandburg, Ernest Hemingway, and Albert Einstein.^[17]
• Bob Gibson's "The Courtship of Carl Sandburg", starring Tom Amandes as Sandburg^[18]
• Sandburg's quote "Nothing happens unless first a dream.." is featured in the Bones 100th episode (Season 5, Episode 16) "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole".
• Two July 1978 Peanuts comic strips feature Snoopy remarking on a resemblance between Sandburg's likeness on the postage stamp and tennis player Pancho Gonzales
• Samuel M. Steward's gay pulp collection "$tud"'s protagonist refers to Sandburg in an ironic nod to his commentary on the "painted women of Chicago" (as Steward contrarily wrote of the "male whores" of Chicago).^[19]

Bibliography[link]

• In Reckless Ecstasy (1904) (poetry) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
• Abe Lincoln Grows Up (N/A)
• Incidentals (1904) (poetry and prose) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
• Plaint of a Rose (1908) (poetry) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
• Joseffy (1910) (prose) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
• You and Your Job (1910) (prose) (originally published as Charles Sandburg)
• Chicago Poems (1916) (poetry)
• Cornhuskers (1918) (poetry)
• Chicago Race Riots (1919) (prose) (with an introduction by Walter Lippmann)
• Clarence Darrow of Chicago (1919) (prose)
• Smoke and Steel (1920) (poetry)
• Rootabaga Stories (1922) (children's stories)
• Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922) (poetry)
• Rootabaga Pigeons (1923) (children's stories)
• Selected Poems (1926) (poetry)
• Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years (1926) (biography)
• The American Songbag (1927) (folk songs)^[20][21]
• Songs of America (1927) (folk songs) (collected by Sandburg; edited by Alfred V. Frankenstein)
• Abe Lincoln Grows Up (1928) (biography [primarily for children])
• Good Morning, America (1928) (poetry)
• Steichen the Photographer (1929) (history)
• Early Moon (1930) (poetry)
• Potato Face (1930) (children's stories)
• Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (1932) (biography)
• The People, Yes (1936) (poetry)
• Abraham Lincoln: The War Years (1939) (biography)
• Storm over the Land (1942) (biography) (excerpts from Sandburg's own Abraham Lincoln: The War Years)
• Road to Victory (1942) (exhibition catalog) (text by Sandburg; images compiled by Edward Steichen and published by the Museum of Modern Art)
• Home Front Memo (1943) (essays)
• Remembrance Rock (1948) (novel)
• Lincoln Collector: the story of the Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln collection (1949) (prose)
• The New American Songbag (1950) (folk songs)
• Complete Poems (1950) (poetry)
• The wedding procession of the rag doll and the broom handle and who was in it (1950) (children's story)
• Always the Young Strangers (1953) (autobiography)
• Selected poems of Carl Sandburg (1954) (poetry) (edited by Rebecca West)
• The Family of Man (1955) (exhibition catalog) (introduction; images compiled by Edward Steichen)
• Prairie-town boy (1955) (autobiography) (essentially excerpts from Always the Young Strangers)
• Sandburg Range (1957) (prose and poetry)
• Harvest Poems, 1910–1960 (1960) (poetry)
• Wind Song (1960) (poetry)
• Honey and Salt (1963) (poetry)
• The Letters of Carl Sandburg (1968) (autobiographical/correspondence) (edited by Herbert Mitgang)
• Breathing Tokens (poetry by Sandburg, edited by Margaret Sandburg) (1978) (poetry)
• Ever the Winds of Chance (1983) (autobiography) (started by Sandburg, completed by Margaret Sandburg and George Hendrick)
• Carl Sandburg at the movies : a poet in the silent era, 1920–1927 (1985) (selections of his reviews of silent movies—collected and edited by Dale Fetherling and Doug Fetherling)
• Billy Sunday and other poems (1993) (edited with an introduction by George Hendrick and Willene Hendrick)
• Poems for children nowhere near old enough to vote (1999) (compiled and with an introduction by George and Willene Hendrick)
• Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years (2007) (illustrated edition with an introduction by Alan Axelrod)

Notes[link]

See also[link]

	Poetry portal
	Novels portal

• Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

External links[link]

• Works by or about Carl Sandburg in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Prayers for the People: Carl Sandburg's Poetry and Songs A Nebraska Educational Telecommunications film, University of Nebraska (Video, 1 hour)

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Carl Sandburg

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Carl Sandburg

• Carl Sandburg Home, North Carolina
• Carl Sandburg Research Website
• Carl Sandburg's birthplace in Galesburg, IL
• Sandburg archive, The Connemara collection, The Asheville collection, The University of Illinois Carl Sandburg databases
• Archive: The Alan Jenkins Collection, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections
• Carl Sandburg FBI File
• Cavalcade of America (audio files) featuring Carl Sandburg at the Internet Archive
• Sandburg at the Internet Archive, including video and audio files

Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky (b. 1940), at a 2005 event.
Born	(1940-10-20) 20 October 1940 (age 71). Long Branch, New Jersey United States
Occupation	poet, literary critic, editor, academic,
Nationality	United States
Period	1968-present
Genres	poetry, literary criticism
Notable work(s)	Selected Poems (2011)
Influences William Carlos Williams Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Allen GinsbergElizabeth Bishop

Robert Pinsky (born October 20, 1940) is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry. His published work also includes critically acclaimed translations, including a collection of poems by Czesław Miłosz and Dante Alighieri. He teaches at Boston University and is the poetry editor at Slate.^[1]

Biography[link]

Robert Pinsky was born on October 20, 1940, in Long Branch, New Jersey, where he attended Long Branch High School.^[2] He received a B.A. from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and earned both an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he was a Stegner Fellow in creative writing. He was a student of poet & critic Yvor Winters at Stanford.^[3]

Early on, Pinsky was inspired by the flow and tension of jazz and the excitement that it made him feel. He said it was an incredible experience that he has tried to reproduce in his poetry. The musicality of poetry was and is extremely important to his work.^[4]

Pinsky (right) with Gerald Stern at the Miami Book Fair International 2011

He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 1974, and in 1997 he was named the United States Poet Laureate and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, being the first and so far only poet to be named to three terms.^[5] He now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University.

As Poet Laureate, Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, in which thousands of Americans of varying backgrounds, all ages, and from every state share their favorite poems. Pinsky believed that, contrary to stereotype, poetry has a strong presence in the American culture. The project sought to document that presence, giving voice to the American audience for poetry.^[6]

Pinsky wrote the libretto for Death and the Powers, a ground-breaking opera by composer Tod Machover. The opera received its world premiere in Monte Carlo in September 2010, and its U.S. premiere at Boston's Cutler Majestic Theater in March 2011.^[7]

Pinsky is also the author of the interactive fiction game Mindwheel (1984) developed by Synapse Software and released by Broderbund.^[8]

Pinsky guest-starred in a 2002 episode of the animated sitcom The Simpsons TV show, "Little Girl in the Big Ten", and appeared on The Colbert Report in April, 2007, as the judge of a "Meta-Free-Phor-All" between Stephen Colbert and Sean Penn.

Published works[link]

CDs[link]

• PoemJazz (2012)

Poetry[link]

• Sadness and Happiness (1975)
• An Explanation of America (1981)
• History of My Heart (1984)
• Dying (1984)
• The Want Bone (1990)
• Shirt (1990)
• The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 (1996)
• "ABC" (1998)
• Jersey Rain (2000)
• Samurai Song (2001)
• Gulf Music: Poems (2007)
• Impossible to tell(...)

Prose[link]

• Landor's Poetry (1968)
• The Situation of Poetry (1977)
• Poetry and the World Ecco Press,(1988) ISBN 978-0-88001-216-4
• The Sounds of Poetry (1998)
• Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry (2002)
• The Life of David (2006)
• Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town (2009)

Libretto[link]

• Death and the Powers, an opera by Tod Machover (2010)

Interactive fiction[link]

• Mindwheel (1984)

As translator[link]

• The Separate Notebooks by Czesław Miłosz, with Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass (1984)
• The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation (1995)

As editor[link]

• Handbook of Heartbreak (1998)
• Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology, with Maggie Dietz (1999)
• Poems to Read (2002)
• An Invitation to Poetry (2004)
• Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (2009)

Honors and awards[link]

• Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1997–2000)
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1974)
• Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University
• Saxifrage Prize (1980) for An Explanation of America
• William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America
• Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (1988) for Poetry and the World
• Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996
• Ambassador Book Award in Poetry of the English Speaking Union
• Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (1997) for The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996
• Los Angeles Times Book Award (1994) for The Inferno of Dante
• Book-of-the-Month Editor's Choice (1994) for The Inferno of Dante
• Academy of American Poets' Translation Award (1994) for The Inferno of Dante

Notes and references[link]

Notes and citations[link]

Books and printed materials[link]

• The Art of Poetry LXXVI: Robert Pinsky" The Paris Review No. 144 (1997), 180-213 (interview)

Online Resources[link]

• Boston University Press Release
• Cortland Review Interview with Robert Pinsky
• Modern American Poetry on Robert Pinsky
• The Academy of American Poets on Robert Pinsky
• "Modernism and Memory," Pinsky's lecture from the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Robert Pinsky

• Ben Downing, Daniel Kunitz (Fall 1997). "Robert Pinsky, The Art of Poetry No. 76". The Paris Review. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1218/the-art-of-poetry-no-76-robert-pinsky. 
• Robert Pinsky reads his poem Street Music.
• Essential Pleasures: Robert Pinsky's column on Poems Out Loud (April 2009)
• Interview with Robert Pinsky for Guernica Magazine
• The Favorite Poem Project Site
• IPA: Robert Pinsky reads a selection of his poetry
• Poet Robert Pinsky Takes on King David in a public radio interview on ThoughtCast!
• Robert Pinsky is the special guest judge for the Sean Penn vs. Stephen Colbert's "Meta-Free-Phor-All: Shall I Nail Thee to a Summer's Day?" Metaphor-Off
• Watch Robert Pinsky read "Book" at Open-Door Poetry
• Robert Pinsky's interview about his time and inspirations in Maine