THE ESTATE OF STANLEY KUNITZ

“Love and poetry are lights enough.” — Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz was an American poet who twice served as the United States Poet Laureate, in 1974 and again in 2000. His numerous books include THE COLLECTED POEMS OF STANLEY KUNITZ; PASSING THROUGH: THE LATER POEMS, NEW AND SELECTED, which won the National Book Award; NEXT TO LAST THINGS: NEW POEMS AND ESSAYS; THE TESTING TREE; and with Genine Lentine, THE WILD BRAID: A POET REFLECTS ON A CENTURY IN THE GARDEN.

Honors and awards include a Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, and the Bollingen Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.

Kunitz was a founder of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets House in New York City.

He died in 2006 at the age of 100.

The Stanley Kunitz Papers are archived in the Princeton University Library Special Collections. STANLEY KUNTIZ PAPERS