Stanley Kunitz

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

 References 

Category:American poets
Category:1905 births
Category:2006 deaths
Category:Writers from Massachusetts
Category:Writers from Vermont
Category:People from Worcester, Massachusetts
Category:People from Bennington, Vermont