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2015 Winner, Michael B True

Special thanks to Carol Stockmal for opening her home for the inaugural presentation of the Stanley Kunitz Award.

Award recipient Mike True arrives at the Stockmal home.
Two figure seated in a garden setting. Mary Pat True (left) and Mike True (right)
Mary Pat (left) and Mike True (right) at the 2015 Kunitz Medal ceremony.
Mike True displays gifts received from China.
Passing the medal case to Mary Pat True for safe keeping.
The Stanley Kunitz Medal committee – Robert Steele, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, award recipient Mike True, Edward “Bob” Cronin, Rodger Martin, and John Hodgen.
Cake Cutting
Pat O’Hara reads in the open mic.
Open mic reader Anne Marie Lucci

View the 2015 Kunitz Award Press Release.

View the event broadside created by Dan Lewis.

Read the Worcester Telegram & Gazette story on the announcement.

Read the event press coverage.

Photos in the gallery below are courtesy of John Gaumond, John Hodgen, and Robert Steele.

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