An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology
Maggie Dietzis the Favorite Poem Project's director. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.Robert Pinskyis the author of eight collections of poetry including, most recently, hisSelected Poems. His translationThe Inferno of Dantewon theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize in Poetry. His CDPoemJazz, with Grammy-winning pianist Laurence Hobgood, was released in 2012. As United States Poet Laureate, Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project (www.favoritepoem.org), in which thousands of Americans shared their favorite poems. That project gave rise to the previous anthologies,Americans’ Favorite PoemsandAn Invitation to Poetry, with each poem accompanied by readers’ comments. Pinsky teaches at Boston University.