BU's Pinsky to be nation's poet laureate

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 28, 1997| Author: Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff | Copyright information

Poet Robert Pinsky, considered one of Boston's literary treasures, today will be named the next poet laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Pinsky, whose work includes five poetry collections and an acclaimed translation of Dante's "Inferno," will succeed Robert Hass, whose second year in the post ends in May.

Reached by phone Wednesday, an enthusiastic Pinsky said that the job has "a lot of appeal" to him and that he is just beginning to formulate...

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