Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky is one of America’s foremost poet-critics. He earned his BA from Rutgers University in 1962 and his MA and PhD in philosophy from Stanford University in 1966, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in creative writing. His most recent books include At the Founding Hospital (2016) and Selected Poems (2012). The most recent poetry anthologies he has edited are The Book of Poetry for Hard Times (2021), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall: Poems at the Extremes of Feeling (2019), and Singing School (2014). He also translated Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein (2013). Pinsky served as editor of the 25th anniversary volume of The Best of American Poetry anthologies called The Best of the Best of American Poetry (2013), and is the former poetry editor of Slate. (Source)