Robert Pinsky’s recent books are his Selected Poems and the anthology Singing School. His albums with Granny-winning pianist Laurence Hobgood are PoemJazz (2012) and HouseHour (2015). As U.S. Poet Laureate (1997-2000), Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project: thousands of Americans reading aloud and commenting on poems by Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Shakespeare and others, with a growing video library at www.favoritepoem.org. _His new book of poems is At the Foundling Hospital (Fall, 2016).