National Poetry Month: PBS’s ‘Poetry in America’ shows how verse isn’t merely the art of words
In a new book, Rabbi David Wolpe examines what made the Jewish leader fallible and why, despite his bad behavior, he was great
The former poet laureate on the former Triple Crown winner
The Comment of the Week concerns adolescence
The late U.S. poet laureate on growing up Jewish in Detroit, playing tennis in verse, and hanging on to his memories, which are the source of his art
Robert Pinsky’s career-spanning Selected Poems highlights his movement from meditative formalist to Whitmanesque bard
Jacqueline Osherow’s latest collection, Whitethorn, offers poems engaged at once with the literature of the Jewish past and the landscape of the American present
Robert Pinsky’s David, and NBC’s
Robert Pinsky’s poetry gets a rhythm section
In The Life of David, the first book in Nextbook’s Jewish Encounters series, Robert Pinsky examines the legacy of one of the Bible’s most compelling figures
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