Princeton, Mass., poet and teacher Susan Roney-O’Brien has been chosen to receive the 2020 Stanley Kunitz Medal. The medal is awarded through a bequest from two-time Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Worcester native Stanley Kunitz.
Eleanor Wilner says of her poetry, “With the authority of a rural life lived close to nature, Roney-O’Brien’s moving poetry answers what it asks, ‘if I am keeper of tree and land, am I not also steward of memory/’ for ‘who else/can trace the spaces gone to dark?’”
2020 Kunitz Medal Broadside honoring Susan Roney-O’Brien
Press Release – 2020 Kunitz Medal
Roney-O’Brien was awarded with the Stanley Kunitz Medal at a delayed ceremony on Thursday, July 22, 2021, at the Broad Meadow Brook Audubon Society Pavilion in Worcester.
