Kunitz Medal Award Ceremony

 

Join us at the Museum of Worcester as the Stanley Kunitz Medal is presented to this year’s winner, Victor D. Infante. The museum’s new Poem Next Door exhibit — which features “My Mother’s Pears,” Kunitz’s poem about his boyhood home at 4 Woodford Street — will be open for viewing at 6 pm before the program begins.

This award is presented annually to honor a poet with a strong Worcester County (Mass.) connection who best exemplifies Stanley Kunitz’s life-long commitment to poetry and poets. The award recognizes the total commitment to poetry as Kunitz lived it: teaching poetry, mentoring poets, speaking poetry, publishing poetry, and supporting organizations that nurture poetry.

Victor D. Infante is a poet, fiction writer and journalist living in Worcester, Massachusetts. He is the author of the recent poetic novella, Suffer For This, from Moon Tide Press and the full-length poetry collection, City of Insomnia, from Write Bloody Publishing. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Chiron Review, The Collagist, Barrelhouse, Pearl, Spillway and The Banyan Review. He is currently the features editor of the Telegram & Gazette and the editor of Worcester Magazine. He’s an Aquarius, with all that entails.

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