Since the late 1920s Stanley Kunitz has consistently gone his own way. Meticulous in the craft of poetry, he has published his writings sparingly and seems to have been unaffected by the work of other poets. Though, as T.S. Eliot observed, "art never imp...

At the age of 95, Stanley Kunitz (born 1905) became the oldest person ever to serve as Poet Laureate of the United States. One of the finest American poets of the Twentieth Century, Kunitz produced only 12 books in more than 70 years, but the quality of...

Q. I am puttng up a 6-foot-high stockade fence. There is a big maple tree on the boundary line. I can't box the fence around the tree because it would jut into the driveway. I can't box the tree in my neighbor's yard. How...

All I have is a voice To undo the folded lie, The romantic lie in the brain Of the sensual man-in-the-street And the lie of Authority Whose buildings grope the sky. W.H. Auden The relation between poetry and war is, as...