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Stanley Kunitz |
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The Poet and
The Poem: Stanley Kunitz: An interview and reading with poetry legend, Stanley Kunitz. Grace Cavalieri hosts this one-hour
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The Poet and The
Poem:
Stanley Kunitz
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 Stanley Kunitz
welcomed his ninetieth year in 1995 with a collection
of his later poems, Passing
Through, for which he
won the National Book Award. He is the author of twelve volumes of
poetry. His twelfth, The
Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz, was published by W.W. Norton in October, 2000. He has received nearly every honor bestowed
upon a poet in this country, including the Pulitzer
and Bollingen Prizes, a National Medal of Arts from
President Clinton in 1993, and the Frost Medal from
the Poetry Society of America in 1998.
He served as consultant in poetry to the Library of
Congress (now called U.S. Poet Laureate), State Poet
of New York, and Chancellor of the Academy of
American Poets. For many years he taught in the
graduate writing program at Columbia University. As
editor of the Yale Younger Poets Series from 1969 to
1977, and as a founder of both the Fine Arts Work
Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets
House in New York City, he has promoted poetry and
public access to the arts, encouraging many of the
younger poets and artists who are now prominent
figures in American culture.
Kunitz and his wife, the artist Elise Asher, live in
New York City and Provincetown, where he cultivates a
celebrated seaside garden. |
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Poet and The Poem with Grace Cavalieri |
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Grace talks with Stanley Kunitz
 On October 12, 2000, Stanley Kunitz was named the
tenth Poet Laureate of the
United States. That night was memorialized with a
Reading by the 96-year old
poet to a room crowded with fans and admirers. He was
given an ovation that
was unprecedented in those halls. Stanley is the most
beloved poet in
America. Never have we seen a criticism of his work
or conduct, for indeed,
poetry is a kind of behavior, and Stanley's behavior
throughout this century
is one of benevolence and good will. He has seen the
full development of
American poetry within his life span nearing 100
years. We have here the audio of his conversation for public radio in an
"interview-reading" conducted
October 13, 2000. This program was
delivered to the public radio
universe in January 2001 via NPR satellite.
—Grace Cavalieri
This one-hour program is presented in streaming audio.
Listen to the program
 Grace Cavalieri is the
author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Cuffed Frays (Argonne Hotel Press,
2001), and numerous
produced plays, including Pinecrest
Rest Haven (Word Works,
1998), which premiered at the Common Basis Theatre in New York, 2001. She has also
written texts and lyrics for opera, stage, and film.
Producer/host of public radio's "The Poet and the
Poem" weekly from 1977 to 1997, presenting 2000
poets to the nation, she now produces the series
annually from the Library of Congress via NPR
satellite. The recipient of awards that include the
PEN Fiction Award, The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award,
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver
Medal as well as others which honor her
"significant contribution to poetry" and
distinguish her as an exceptional woman, she is part
of the poetry faculty at St. Mary's College of
Southern Maryland and teaches workshops nationwide.
She and her husband, sculptor Kenneth Flynn, live in
West Virginia. They have four grown daughters.
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