In this installment, Robert Pinsky reads "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats. Pinsky was elected Poet Laureate of the United States in 1997, and he teaches in the Writing program at Boston University. During his tenure as Laureate, he began the Favorite Poems Project, an archive of Americans reading their favorite verse. Visit the archive or learn more about Pinsky’s work here.

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