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Welcome to the Event Multimedia Center Return to Main Menu Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky: Poetry and American Memory Event Date: Thursday, October 8, 1998 With this lecture on Poetry and American Memory, Mr. Pinsky officially opened the Library's 1998-1999 poetry and literature series. The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry is appointed each year by the Librarian of Congress. See and hear Poet ...

FATHER'S DAY POEM June 18, 1999 Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky salutes fathers through verse. JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, some Father's Day words for dads and granddads from NewsHour contributor Robert Pinsky, the Poet Laureate of the United States. ROBERT PINSKY: Sometimes, grandparents do some of the raising of children; sometimes they do all of it. The poet Elizabeth ...

FATHER'S DAY POEM June 16 , 2000 Some words of poetry for fathers, on Father's Day. Here is NewsHour contributor Robert Pinsky, the poet laureate of the United States. ROBERT PINSKY: From Polonius to Homer Simpson, fatherhood has sometimes been associated with comedy. Like all notions of dignity, fatherhood, in its dignity, invites the banana peel fall of satire. And let's face it, fellow dads, ...