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Robert Pinsky
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky is Slate's poetry editor. His Selected Poems is now available.
Articles By Robert Pinsky
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The Inventive Translations of Mary Sidney Herbert
How the Countess of Pembroke inspired John Donne.
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A Taste for Plainness
The simple perfection of the first American poet, Anne Bradstreet.
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"This Is the Favorite Poem"
Hear Mike Wallace read Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.”
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Lucrezia Borgia’s Hair and Forgotten Names
Walter Savage Landor can write a memorable poem about almost anything.
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Crazy in Love
For Valentine’s Day, a poem Ezra Pound called “the most beautiful sonnet in the language.”
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Truth in Darkness
Herman Melville is a master of conveying nature as a mysterious language we must speak but do not know.
