9:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m.
Plenary Address: The Fate of the Modern
Chair: K. Lynne Moritz, M.D., President, (St. Louis, MO) Introducer: Rosemary Balsam, M.D. (New Haven, CT) Speaker: Robert Pinsky (Boston, MA)
Former United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will explore the following questions: How is the work of psychotherapy like and unlike the work of art? How is the history of psychoanalysis like and unlike the history of modern poetry? Also a translator and
an essayist, Pinsky teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston University. His seventh volume of poetry, Gulf Music,is being published October 2007, by Farrar,Straus and Giroux.
Click Here to Read: Howard Shevrin’s Introduction to Robert Pinksy’s Essay on Psychiatrists.
Click Here to Read: Robert Pinsky’s Poem: Essay on Psychiatrists.
Click Here to Read: Review of Robert Pinsky’s The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 by Katha Pollitt in the New York Times.
Click Here to Listen to: Favorite Poems Project. A partnership among Boston University, the Library of Congress and other organizations with major funding from the National Endowment from the Arts and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
See particularly: “Nick and The Candlestick” by Sylvia Plath, read by Seth Rodney, Photographer, Long Beach, CA.
“Untitled Tanka (The Lower Leaves of Trees)” by Sone No Yoshitada translated by Ken Rexroth read by Kiyoshi Houston, Student, Santa Monica, CA.
“Sonnett 29” by William Shakespeare read by Daniel McCall, Retired Anthopologist, Boston, MA