A hybrid of literary and scholarly writing, its contributors have included Amos Oz, Ilan Stavans, and A.B. Yehoshua; the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky; and a host of well-known writers and thinkers.
The center holds lectures, tributes, panel discussions and public readings by some of the most renowned poets of our time, including former and current Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, current Poet Laureate Donald Hall, and Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright as well as many area poets.
Robert Pinsky has asserted that this work is comparable in force of imagination to John Donne.
Boyden's first book, The Mouths of Grazing Things, was selected by Robert Pinsky to received the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 2010 (University of Wisconsin Press).
His peers at Stanford included two future poets laureate of the United States, Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky, as well as the poets Ken Fields, James McMichael, and John Peck.
On April 22, President Clinton and the First Lady hosted a gala at the White House that featured Poets Laureate Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, and Rita Dove.
Robert Pinsky (born 1940), American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator
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Recent contributors include many of the leading voices in international literature: Jennifer L. Knox, Paul Muldoon, Helen Dunmore, Anne Carson, Diane Lockward, Kristjana Gunnars, Billy Collins, Julia Copus, Andrew Motion, Robert Pinsky, Stacey Richter, Andrei Codrescu, and George Singleton.
Robert Pinsky won the Lifetime Achievement Award; Dave Eggers received the Award of Honor for his work with 826LA; Charles Bowden received the prestigious First Amendment Award; and Ellie Herman was given the Freedom to Write (Domestic) Award for her work with PEN In The Classroom.