Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 - May 14, 2006) was an American poet.
Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905. 
He went to Harvard College. He got his bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's degree in 1927. After being in the U. S. Army during World War II, he was a teacher at Bennington College in Vermont, then Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Washington.
In 1959, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for "Selected Poems 1928-1958". In 1995, he won the National Book Award for "Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected".
He was the U.S. Consultant in Poetry from 1974 to 1976. And he was the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2000-2001. 
He was 100 years old when he died in New York City in 2006.