Robert Polito

Robert Polito is a poet, biographer, essayist, critic, educator, curator, and arts administrator. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography in 1995 for Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. The founding director of the New School Graduate Writing Program in New York City, he was President of the Poetry Foundation from 2013 to 2015, before returning to the New School as a professor of writing. In 2019, in collaboration with Michael Almereyda and Jonathan Lethem, Polito published Manny Farber: Paintings & Writings. In 2026 he published After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace (Liveright), and Jim Thompson: Noir Novels of the 1950s & 1960s.

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