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Virtual: Robert Pinksy & Friends, The Book of Poetry for Hard Times

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Oct 01 2021
Virtual: Robert Pinksy & Friends, The Book of Poetry for Hard Times

Join Porter Square Books for a virtual event celebrating the release of The Book of Poetry for Hard Times: An Anthology with anthology editor Robert Pinsky joined by contributors Dan Chiasson, John Murillo, Jill McDonough, and Rowan Ricardo Phillips!

Robert Pinsky, “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), gathers poems that cope with the most extreme human emotions.

Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate source for the urgent, varied experience of human emotion. Poems get under our skin; they offer solace with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Book of Poetry for Hard Times, former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky curates poems that explore the expanses ... view more »