Robert Pinsky: Poems

Honors and awards

  • Premio Capri (Italian) in 2009
  • Manhae Foundation Prize (Korean) in 2006
  • PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry in 2004
  • Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1997–2000)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (1974)
  • Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University
  • Saxifrage Prize (1980) for An Explanation of America
  • William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America
  • Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (1988) for Poetry and the World
  • Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1996) for The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966–1996
  • Ambassador Book Award in Poetry of the English Speaking Union
  • Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (1997) for The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966–1996
  • Los Angeles Times Book Award (1994) for The Inferno of Dante
  • Book-of-the-Month Editor's Choice (1994) for The Inferno of Dante
  • Academy of American Poets' Translation Award (1994) for The Inferno of Dante

Pinsky has received honorary doctorates from numerous institutions such as Northwestern University (2000),[25] Binghamton University (2001),[26] the University of Michigan (2001),[27] Lake Forest College (2007),[28] Emerson College (2012),[29] Southern New Hampshire University (2014)[30] University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2016),[31] and Merrimack College (2016)[32]


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