Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate in 2000, dies
by sernabad
Stanley Kunitz, the United States Poet Laureate in 2000, died in his home in Manhattan on May 14, 2006.
Mr. Kunitz, who graduated from Harvard in 1926 with a BA and in 1927 with an MA, enjoyed a prolific career that spanned more than eight decades. His brilliance was recognized with one prestigious award after another. He won a Guggenheim in 1945-46; the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1959 for Selected Poems, 1928-1958; the National Book Award in 1995 for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected; the National Medal of the Arts at age 88 in 1993; and the highly coveted Bollingen Prize in poetry in 1987.
Mr. Kunitz attributed his longevity to his love of gardening, writing, and oh, yes, the occasional martini.
Mr. Kunitz would have been 101 on July 29th of this year.
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