Robert Pinsky

Born and raised in New Jersey, Robert Pinsky is a poet, essayist, and translator. He was the U.S. poet laureate from 1997 to 2000. His translations include Dante’s Inferno and the poetry of Czesław Miłosz. Among Pinsky’s honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, the Oscar Blumenthal Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. Pinsky is a professor of English at Boston University.