That's not a typo.* The man was 100!
About a decade ago I attended a 90th birthday party celebration for Stanley Kunitz. I think it was the first poetry reading I ever went to in NYC. (I'd only been here about a week or so.)
I saw him a few times after that, at his own readings, on 12th Street near the New School where he apparently had an apartment & just 'round about. He was warm & funny, always smiling. His love poems to his wife (even if his style is not your cuppa) have always moved me. & he gave us Poets' House.
Farewell, Mr. Kunitz.
*Uh, except it was a typo. I put 2005, i/o 2006. Whoops. He passed yesterday, May 14.
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