Article: Poet laureate to speak at Texas Christian U. Honors Convocation

Courtney Roach
University Wire
04-12-2000
(Daily Skiff) (U-WIRE) FORT WORTH, Texas -- Pulitzer Prize nominee and the 39th U.S. poet laureate of the United States Robert Pinsky will discuss "Learning and Art" at the Texas Christian University Honors Convocation Thursday.

Pinsky, a professor at Boston University, editor of the online journal Slate and regular contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, will speak at 11 a.m. in Ed Landreth Hall Auditorium.

Karen Steele, a professor of English, said a poet laureate is someone who has achieved high accomplishments in the world of poetry and does not apply for the honor but is chosen.

"They are the public face of poetry," Steele said. "They travel ...

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