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.