IMSA Great Minds Program® Community Lecture to Feature U.S. Poet Laureate
For Immediate Release, March 2001
For comment, contact Brenda Buschbacher at
(630) 907-5033
AURORA-- U.S. Poet Laureate Dr. Robert Pinsky will present An Evening with Robert Pinsky: Poetry Reading and Commentary March 20, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. in the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) auditorium. This lecture, as well as seminars and dialogues for Illinois educators and students, are sponsored by the IMSA Great Minds Program®.
As the 39th U.S. Poet Laureate (1997-2000), Dr. Pinsky has been one of the most visible in the history of the position. In 1997, he started the Favorite Poem Project, www.favoritepoem.org, that has recorded and videotaped hundreds of Americans reciting poems that have deeply intertwined themselves into the reader’s life. His book of poems, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1965-1995, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry and also received the Lenore Marshall Award and the Ambassador Book Award of the English Speaking Union.
Pinsky is poetry editor of the online journal Slate and a contributor to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. He teaches the graduate writing program at Boston University. His writing has won awards from the Gugggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Seating is limited and reservations are required. Contact The Center@IMSA at (630) 907-5956 or e-mail greatminds@imsa.edu. Admission is $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for seniors and free for students with an I.D.
The IMSA Great Minds Program supports IMSA’s learning agenda by creating unique teaching and learning opportunities to help shape mathematics and science educational public policy in Illinois and the nation. The intellectual resources of the Great Minds Program are shared with students and teachers throughout Illinois and the nation through Seminars, Dialogues, Community Lectures and the IMSA Great Minds Program® website (http://www.imsa.edu/team/greatminds/).
Located in Aurora, Illinois, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy® (IMSA) is an internationally-recognized pioneering educational institution created by the State to develop talent and stimulate excellence in teaching and learning in mathematics, science and technology. IMSA's advanced residential college preparatory program enrolls 650 academically talented Illinois students in grades 10-12. More than 14,000 teachers and 20,000 students in Illinois and beyond have benefited from IMSA's professional development and enrichment programs. IMSA serves the people of Illinois through innovative instructional programs, public and private partnerships, policy leadership and action research.