Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz, considered by many to be America's greatest living poet, has been for many decades a major influence on poets through his poetry and his teaching. This Tribute on his 96th birthday is a feast prepared lovingly by the following poets among others: Richard Wilbur, Alan Dugan, Cleopatra Mathis, Louise Gluck, Stanley Moss, Marie Howe, Galway Kinnell, Susan Mitchell, Michael Ryan, Christopher Busa, Jack Gilbert, Mark Rudman, Joyce Carol Oates, Tess Gallagher, Tomas Transtromer, Bruce Smith, Olga Broumas, Grace Schulman, Hugh Seidman, W. S. Merwin, Edward Field, Tom Sleigh, Lucie Brock-Broido, Robert Hass, Stephen Berg, Maxine Kumin, Robert Pinsky, Kenneth Koch, and C. K. Williams.
