Lannan Readings & Conversations

Stanley Kunitz

with Michael Silverblatt
Wednesday August 4 2001

Reading – 4 August 2001
Conversation with Michael Silverblatt – 4 August 2001

Stanley Kunitzs numerous books include The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz; Passing Through:The Later Poems, New and Selected; Next to Last Things: New Poems and Essays; and The Testing Tree. Honors and awards include a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and the National Medal of Arts. Mr. Kunitz, United States Poet Laureate in 2000, is a founder of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets House in New York City.

Stanley Kunitz Bio and Cross Links


Michael Silverblatt, a New York native, studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he came under the influence of such cutting-edge author-teachers as Donald Barthelme and John Barth. Dubbed "the best reader in America" by Norman Mailer, he is the host of the literary talk show Bookworm, which he created in 1989 for KCRW 89.9 FM in Santa Monica. He has participated in numerous Readings & Conversations programs, interviewing Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, and A.S. Byatt, among others. Bookworm airs locally on KSFR 101.1FM every Sunday at 1:30pm.

Michael Silverblatt Bio and Cross Links