Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1928–1958 (Little, Brown, 1958), and the National Book Award for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (W. W. Norton, 1995). He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1976 and, at ninety-five, as United States Poet Laureate from 2000 to 2001. His honors include the Bollingen Prize and the National Medal of Arts. A founder of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and of Poets House in New York City, he later taught at Columbia University.
