ROBERT PINSKY | photo by Eric Antoniou
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June 19, 2023


Save the Date!
THREE TIME U.S. POET LAUREATE
ROBERT PINSKY
PRESENTS
PROVERBS OF LIMBO

Saturday | September 9 | 7:30 pm
CitySpace

With Music Director/Pianist Laurence Hobgood,
Saxophonist Stan Strickland,
Cellist Catherine Bent, Bassist John Lockwood
& Special Guest Percussionist
Mino Cinélu

New Album: Proverbs of Limbo
New Book Coming in 2024: Proverbs of Limbo

Boston, MA--Three time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will present "Proverbs of Limbo," Saturday, September 9 at 7:30 pm at WBUR's CitySpace [890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215]. It's Poem Jazz. It's a jazz concert. It's a poetry happening. It's uniquely its own thing. Poetry, Proverbs and Percussion.

The band will feature Music Director and pianist Laurence Hobgood, bassist John Lockwood, cellist Catherine Bent and Special Guest Percussionist, Mino Cinélu who performed and toured with Miles Davis, Sting, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and hundreds of other major jazz artists. 

CitySpace's cash bar will be available.

Robert will also be releasing a new album, Proverbs of Limbo, in sync with this concert. The album will feature many of the musicians in this concert and it will be on sale at CitySpace as well.

The concert is a benefit for the fellowship program between Boston University, Boston Arts Academy and the Favorite Poem Project which stewards the fellowship. Robert Pinsky, who is a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University, founded this program where two MFA students per semester teach at the Boston Arts Academy at no cost to Boston Arts Academy. 

Tickets will be on sale soon at $25 (reserved seating), $15 (general admission) and $5 for students.

“The word ‘limbo’ means a border,” Pinsky says. “I like borders. The mix of energies, even when a border may scare me, also inspires me. The clashes and likenesses between things— among cultures, people, beliefs, languages, past and present— can be horrible or wonderful. Or both, mostly! My poems and I have been formed by improvised mixtures, beginning with the New Jersey Shore borderlands where I grew up.”
ROBERT PINSKY & MUSIC DIRECTOR LAURENCE HOBGOOD | photo by Eric Antoniou
MINO CINÉLU
Special Guest Percussionist
CATHERINE BENT
Cello
STAN STRICKLAND
Sax, Flute, Vocals
JOHN LOCKWOOD
Bass
ABOUT ROBERT PINSKY

Robert Pinsky has performed as a spoken word artist with musicians including Catherine Bent, Bobby Bradford, Laurence Hobgood, Vijay Iyer, Josh Ritter, Stan Strickland and Bruce Springsteen. He is the only member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters to have appeared on The Simpsons and The Colbert Report. His albums with Laurence Hobgood are PoemJazz and House Hour.

“What has six arms, an enormous appetite, and roams over the earth devouring experience with omnivorous reverence? The poet Robert Pinsky, that's who. In The Want Bone Pinsky invents a poetic mode all his own, a magisterial, probing, curious, wandering semi-omniscient intelligence--like, that's right, the Eye of God— gathering and recording data into some divine record . . ."—Tony Hoagland

Robert Pinsky’s books of poetry include Gulf Music, The Want Bone, The Figured Wheel (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) and his best-selling translation The Inferno of Dante. A three-time Poet Laureate of the United States, he has received honors including the Korean Manhae Award, the Italian Premio Capri and the Harold Washington Award from the City of Chicago. His recent autobiography is Jersey Breaks. His next book of poems, also entitled Proverbs of Limbo, will be published in May, 2024.
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