Wayland Student Press Network 4/27/13: Poet Robert Pinsky speaks to Wayland community. In a dark auditorium at Wayland Middle School, over two hundred attendees held their breath as speaker Robert Pinsky approached the podium. Pinsky, a Boston University professor and former national poet laureate, is the author of 19 books and has published prominent translations of texts like “The Inferno by Dante Alighieri.” The poet spoke in Wayland as part of Wayland Reads, a library-sponsored program celebrating literature within the Wayland community.

Wayland Town Crier 3/29/13: Wayland Reads kicks off with former U.S. Poet Laureate. Over 200 attendees gathered last Sunday at Wayland Middle School to see former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky discuss the town’s “Favorite Poem Project” through the recitation of a few of his favorite poems, along with some of his own. Pinsky founded the “Favorite Poem Project” while serving as poet laureate during the Clinton administration. He urged the audience to go online (www.favoritepoem.org) to see various renditions of well-known poems.

Wayland Patch 1/11/11: Selectmen Name Committee Members, Address Other Business. Wayland's Board of Selectmen unanimously appointed Kevin Crowley, Doug Goddard and Brad Carver to the new Public Safety Building Advisory Committee. Selectmen also welcomed Wayland Free Public Library Director Ann Knight and Wayland Reads committee chair Sally Cartwright, who introduced the next Wayland Reads book, “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers, and handed out copies and Wayland Reads buttons to selectmen. The board also discussed a recent Open Meeting Law complaint filed by former Wayland selectmen George Harris, who was in attendance at the meeting. Board members expressed a desire to quickly resolve the issue on a local level. The board thanked retiring Council on Aging administrative assistant Marge O’Brien for her years of service, and Town Administrator Fred Turkington updated board members on logistics for the April Town Meeting.

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