& ROBERT PINSKY
Read Their Own Poetry
Three members of the final judging panel for the Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards, read from their own prize-winning work.
Linda Gregerson is the author of four poetry collections: Magnetic North, Waterborne, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep, and Fire in the Conservatory. She is the Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan, where she teaches creative writing and Renaissance literature. Among her awards are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry as well as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Ploughshares, Yale Review, TriQuarterly, and other publications.
Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. The End Of The Poem, a collection of the Oxford lectures was published in 2006. Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, and Horse Latitude (2006).
Robert Pinsky is the first United States Poet Laureate to have served three consecutive terms in the post. His book Gulf Music, is his seventh volume of poetry. His The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 was a Pulitzer Prize nominee and received the Lenore Marshall Award and the Ambassador Book Award of the English Speaking Union. He is the author of the best-selling translation of The Inferno of Dante, co-translator of The Separate Notebooks, and author of The Life of David, a work of prose.
The poetry editor for the online magazine Slate, for seven years Pinsky appeared regularly on "The News Hour" with Jim Lehrer. He writes the weekly "Poet's Choice" column for the Washington Post. He was elected in 1999 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and his poems appear in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Threepenny Review, American Poetry Review, and frequently in The Best American Poetry anthologies. He teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University. He is one of the few members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters to have appeared on "The Simpsons."
