Poetry in America Celebration Public Affairs Office 101 Independence Ave. The event is sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America, with additional support from Borders Books and LIVE at the Library 2000, a joint project of the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Arts.
All events are free and open to the public.
Mr. Pinsky also will present the first video and audio recordings to the Library's Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature from the Favorite Poem project, a program that has documented thousands of people reciting their favorite poems. Selections from the project will be played. The Favorite Poem Project Anthology. His honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters award, Poetry magazines Oscar Blumenthal prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. He is poetry editor of the weekly Internet magazine Slate.