stanley kunitz

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Stanley Kunitz’s The Layers: How poetry offers hope and vision for humanity

ByKim Hermanson

In 2001, during National Poetry Month, Robert Siegel on NPR’s All Things Considered asked Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz whether poetry was a dying art. Kunitz replied, “No, in fact, people are more involved with poetry now than I’ve ever seen in my lifetime.” This optimism wasn’t always Kunitz’s outlook. In the 1970s, fewer people were…

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Discovering your Key image: The heart of creative inspiration

ByKim Hermanson

There was a child went forth every day.And the first object he looks upon, that object he became.–Walt Whitman The late poet Stanley Kunitz believed that writers often have a “key image” that threads through their work, shaping their creative journey. He suggested that writers might spend an entire lifetime exploring a single key image,…

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