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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Worcester Celebration of Poets\nEvent Url: http://w
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 vent Date Begin: 2011-08-13\nEvent Date End: 2011-08-13\n\nRobert Pinsky\,
  U.S. Poet Laureate (1997-2000)\, founded the Favorite Poem Project\, in w
 hich thousands of Americans &mdash\; of varying backgrounds\, all ages\, a
 nd from every state &mdash\; shared their favorite poems.  Robert Pinsky's
  landmark\, best-selling translation of The Inferno of Dante received the 
 Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Howard Morton Landon Prize for transl
 ation. He is also co-translator of The Separate Notebooks\, poems by Nobel
  Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz.  Pinsky's prose book\, The Life of David\, i
 s a lively retelling and examination of the David stories\, narrating a we
 alth of legend as well as scripture. Pinsky also wrote the libretto for To
 d Machover's opera Death and the Powers: A Robot Pageant\, which premiered
  in Monaco in fall 2010. His forthcoming book\, Selected Poems\, will be p
 ublished by Farrar Strauss & Giroux in spring of 2011.\n\nCharles Simic\, 
 U.S. Poet Laureate (2007-2008)\, was born in Belgrade\, Yugoslavia.  He em
 igrated to the U.S. in 1954 . His first full-length collection of poems\, 
 What the Grass Says\, was published in 1967. Since then he has published m
 ore than sixty books in the U.S. and abroad\, twenty titles of his own poe
 try among them\, including That Little Something (Harcourt\, 2008)\, My No
 iseless Entourage (2005)\; Selected Poems: 1963-2003 (2004)\, for which he
  received the 2005 International Griffin Poetry Prize\; The Voice at 3:00 
 AM: Selected Late and New Poems (2003)\; Night Picnic (2001)\; The Book of
  Gods and Devils (2000)\; and Jackstraws (1999)\, which was named a Notabl
 e Book of the Year by the New York Times.\n\nWorcester Celebration of Poet
 s\nPoetry & Music All Day &ndash\; FREE & Open to the Public\n\n12noon to 
 2:00pm &ndash\; Kid-Friendly Poetry\nOur youngest Worcester poets are invi
 ted to read their favorite poems &ndash\; including their own poems! \nOr 
 come by to enjoy readings of children's poetry by local Worcester poets.\n
 \n2:00pm to 6:00pm &ndash\; Poetry Open Mic\nRead your own work or take th
 e mic on behalf of your favorite poet!\n\nDoors re-open at 6:30 (cash bar)
 \n7:30pm to 9:30pm &ndash\; Readings by US Poets Laureate Charles Simic an
 d Robert Pinsky\n\nStart time: 7:30 pm
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