The two long-term goals of the Favorite Poem Project were to promote the reading and appreciation of poetry and encourage the teaching of poetry in schools nationwide. The Project recorded nearly 1,000 Americans saying poems that they love. Mr. Pinsky has delivered fifty audio and video segments to the Library of Congress which have become a permanent part of the Library’s Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. “This will be a gift to the nation’s future: an archive that may come to represent, in a form both individual and public, the collective cultural consciousness of the American people at the turn of the century,” said Mr. Pinsky, a professor of English and creative writing at Boston University. For information on the Favorite Poem Project (http://www.bu.edu/favoritepoem/ ), please visit the Project’s Web site.
