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Robert Pinsky With Campbell McGrath: A Conversation

Robert Pinsky With Campbell McGrath: A Conversation

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Pinsky, Robert, McGrath, Campbell
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This program is being livestreamed from MDC’s Wolfson Campus. For more information about this in-person program, please visit MiamiBookFair.com.

In Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet, Robert Pinsky, a U.S. poet laureate (1997-2000) and Pulitzer Prize finalist, traces the roots of his poetry to the voices of his boyhood neighborhood, Long Branch – a historic but run-down New Jersey shore resort town – amid Italian, Black, and Jewish families. It’s those voices, he says, and a distinctly American tradition of improvisation. Moderating is Campbell McGrath, the award-winning author of 11 books of poetry, including XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize.

 

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Pinsky, Robert

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Robert Pinsky is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Figured Wheel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and prose, including Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry. He served as United States poet laureate from 1997 to 2000. He began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet in the late 1940s in Long Branch, a historic but run-down New Jersey shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families. Descended from a bootlegger grandfather, an athletic father, and a rebellious tomboy mother, Pinsky was an unruly but articulate high school C student whose obsession with the rhythms and melodies of speech inspired him to write. In Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet (W. W. Norton & Company), he traces the roots of his poetry back to the voices of his neighborhood, music, and a distinctly American tradition of improvisation. His influences zig and zag from Mark Twain and Ray Charles to  Marianne Moore and Mel Brooks, Dante Alighieri, and the Orthodox Jewish liturgy. Writing poetry, he reflects, helped him make sense of life’s challenges.

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Campbell McGrath is the author of 11 books of poetry, most recently Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems and XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century, a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in scores of literary journals and anthologies, as well as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, and The New York Times. McGrath’s writing has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in American letters and by a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Award.” He teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University.

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