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Robert Pinsky

One of America’s most celebrated poets, Robert Pinsky served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2000 and created the Favorite Poem Project documenting the life of poetry in the lives of a wide range of Americans.

Fiction

Autumn 1982

Mr. Mintser

By Robert Pinsky

Gilchrist Avenue was a sort of semirespectable street, bordering on the town’s Little Africa, with mostly one-family and two-family houses. Our end of it also had a few rooming houses, […]

Mr. Mintser

By Robert Pinsky

From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Fall 1982, Vol. IV, No. 4 Gilchrist Avenue was a sort of semirespectable street, bordering on the town’s Little Africa, with mostly one-family and […]