Poets & Writers Theater

“A life is not / this supple, // it is not meant / to fold, to be / drawn through // a narrow ring,” reads Monica Youn from her poem “Portrait of a Hanged Woman” in this 2018 reading and conversation with Robert Pinsky for the Twenty Summers arts center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

“The art of poetry for me is the art of composing a sequence of vowels, consonants, and sentence sounds that will seem moving, meaningful,” says former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky in this 2014 episode of Cortland Review’s Poets in Person series, in which he discusses his beginnings as a poet and his philosophy behind writing.