The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 11th, 1997
Robert Pinsky, the new national poet laureate, is making videos of President Clinton and 99 other Americans reading their favorite poems. Blending the traditional and the modern is nothing new for Pinsky, who is poetry editor of the on-line magazine Slate as well as a translator of the Italian poet Dante. "My theory is that there's a very deep personal, intellectual and physical effect from what a person says aloud," he said in a news conference Thursday as he took over the post. Pinsky said he would use readings by people from all walks of life in the videos. Clinton would not lead the list...
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