Stanley Kunitz:

Stanley Kunitz received the 1995 National Book Award in Poetry for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected. Five years later, The Collected Poems, combining both early and later work, was published.

Kunitz has received nearly every honor bestowed upon a poet in this country, including the Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes, a National Medal of the Arts from President Clinton in 1993, and the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America in 1998. He served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (and again when the post was called U.S. Poet Laureate). He was State Poet of New York, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For many years Kunitz taught in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. He was editor of the Yale Younger Poets from 1969 to 1977, and was a founder of both the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets House in New York City.

Kunitz lives in New York City and Provincetown.

(Back to "A Living Poem")