Events
Cate Marvin and Robert Pinsky Reading
Distinguished Writers Series: Cate Marvin
Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 4:30pm
Cate Marvin's first book, World's Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. In 2002, she received the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize. She co-edited with poet Michael Dumanis the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006). Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and Ninth Letter. Her second book of poems, Fragment of the Head of a Queen, for which she received a Whiting Award, was published by Sarabande in 2007. Marvin teaches poetry writing in Lesley University's Low-Residency M.F.A. Program and Columbia University's MFA Program and is an associate professor in creative writing at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. In 2009, she co-founded the nonprofit organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts with poet Erin Belieu. Her third book of poems, Oracle, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Co. in 2013.
Robert Pinsky served as poet laureate of the United States from 1997-2000. During his tenure he created the Favorite Poem Project to document, promote, and celebrate poetry's place in American culture. In addition to three anthologies co-edited by Pinsky,
Americans' Favorite Poems,
Poems to Read, and
An Invitation to Poetry, the project has produced fifty short documentaries showcasing Americans reading and speaking about poems they love. Pinsky's most recent books of poems are
Gulf Music (2007) and
Jersey Rain (2000).
The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received both the Lenore Marshall Award and the Ambassador Book Award of the English Speaking Union. His other awards include the Shelley Memorial Award, the William Carlos Williams Prize, and the
Los Angeles Times Book Award, as well as the Howard Morton Landon Translation Prize for his bestselling translation of
The Inferno of Dante. Among his prose works are
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide and the recent
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry. Pinsky teaches in the
graduate writing program at Boston University and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is also poetry editor of
Slate magazine.
