Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz
Born	Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (1905-07-29)July 29, 1905 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	May 14, 2006(2006-05-14) (aged 100) New York City, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	Harvard College
Notable awards	National Book Award (1995) Robert Frost Medal (1998)
Spouses	Helen Pearce (1930–1937; divorced) Elanor Evans (1937–1958; divorced) Elise Asher (1958–2004; her death)

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 - May 14, 2006) was an American poet.

Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905.

He went to Harvard College. He got his bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's degree in 1927. After being in the U. S. Army during World War II, he was a teacher at Bennington College in Vermont, then Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Washington.

In 1959, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Selected Poems 1928-1958. In 1995, he won the National Book Award for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected.

He was the U.S. Consultant in Poetry from 1974 to 1976. And he was the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2000-2001.

He was 100 years old when he died in New York City in 2006.

Books

• Intellectual Things (1930)
• Passport to the War (1944)
• Selected Poems, 1928-1958 (1958)
• The Testing-Tree (1971)
• The Terrible Threshold : Selected Poems, 1940-1970 (1974
• The Coat Without a Seam: Sixty Poems 1930-1972 (1974) )
• The Poems of Stanley Kunitz (1928–1978) (1978)
• The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems (1983)
• Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985)
• Passing Through, The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995)
• The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000)
• The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (2005)

Related pages

• List of poets from North America