A Conversation with former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
Channel: MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Date: 28/04/2016

In this wide-ranging February, 2006, conversation, the former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky discussrf his collaboration on an opera with Tod Machover, director of the MIT Media Lab's Opera of the Future program. Pinsky also discussed his Favorite Poem Project, his ideas about poetry and democratic culture, and his prose book, "The Life of David," an account of the biblical poet-king. MIT Communications Forum director David Thorburn moderated.