the Coltrane of the Quatrain, the Tony Danza of the Stanza

2009 November 11
by Stacy Vowel

That’s right, ROBERT PINSKY reads from his work on The Simpsons (skip to 9:58)

Lisa attends his reading at Cafe Kafka, where the sound technician recites this sound-checking verse: “roses are red, roses are red. april is the cruelest month, cruelest month,” and then shares an after-reading pizza with the former poet laureate. Pizza and poems? We’re in.

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