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jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · Nov 11
Worth squinting for; The Abduction - Stanley Kunitz
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Today’s #dailyjolt comes from #stanleykunitz. www.bustedhalo.com
August 30, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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"The Long Boat", Stanley Kunitz
Fanyantan Luming
Leuchtturm paper
Monteverde innova, omniflex nib
Desk gecko guest appearance

#poetry #handwritten #stanleykunitz #americanliterature
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
today more of the season for #SmallPoemSunday
#poetry #stanleykunitz
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
End of Summer BY STANLEY KUNITZ An agitation of the air, A perturbation of the light Admonished me the unloved year Would turn on its hinge that night. I stood in the disenchanted field Amid the stubble and the stones, Amazed, while a small worm lisped to me The song of my marrow-bones. Blue poured into summer blue, A hawk broke from his cloudless tower, The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew That part of my life was over. Already the iron door of the north Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows Order their populations forth, And a cruel wind blows.
September 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection."

Poems: allpoetry.com/Stanley-Kunitz

✒ #StanleyKunitz, American poet and translator, was #BOTD 28 July 1905. #Poetry #Literature
July 28, 2026 at 12:09 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

- #StanleyKunitz
November 23, 2024 at 5:36 AM
rickehling.bsky.social
Today’s poem for #nationalpoetrymonth
#TheRound by #StanleyKunitz
#NaPoMo #poetry
“as it does each day”
The Round by Stanley Kunitz Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets over the humps of the honeybees; this morning I saw light kiss the silk of the roses in their second flowering, my late bloomers flushed with their brandy. A curious gladness shook me. So I have shut the doors of my house, so I have trudged downstairs to my cell, so I am sitting in semi-dark hunched over my desk with nothing for a view to tempt me but a bloated compost heap, steamy old stinkpile, under my window; and I pick my notebook up and I start to read aloud the still-wet words I scribbled on the blotted page: "Light splashed..." I can scarcely wait till tomorrow when a new life begins for me, as it does each day, as it does each day.
April 22, 2026 at 1:53 PM
rickehling.bsky.social
Another tribute to #poetry this time #StanleyKunitz and #MaryOliver over at #post.news where long format posts permit this kind of posting. #TheLayers

“Live in the layers,
not on the litter.“

#NationalPoetryMonth
National Poetry Month #8 Stanley Kunitz
(and a tribute by Mary Oliver ) ©️ 📸 Rick Ehling 11/25/2023 #KenneysBeach #Southold #NorthFork #LongIsland #LongIslandSound The Layers BY STANLEY KUNITZ I have walked through many lives, some of them ...
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April 27, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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The Quarrel po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

#StanleyKunitz #TheQuarrel #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes #Poems #AmericanPoetry #20thCenturyPoetry #Love #Mortality #PulitzerPrize #PoetLaureate
The Quarrel
Stanley Kunitz's The Quarrel explores anger, love, and mortality in spare, lyrical lines. A late meditation on conflict and devotion.
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July 23, 2026 at 7:29 AM
aempoet.bsky.social
Stanley Kunitz, "The System,"(ca 1971).
#stanleykunitz #poem #poetsandpoetry
July 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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#StanleyKunitz #TheQuarrel #PoetryCommunity #PoemOfTheDay #PoemsRethabileLikes

The Quarrel po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
The Quarrel
Stanley Kunitz's The Quarrel explores anger, love, and mortality in spare, lyrical lines. A late meditation on conflict and devotion.
po-re-li.blogspot.com
March 3, 2026 at 8:02 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
In a murderous time
the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn.

- #StanleyKunitz, 'The Testing Tree' (excerpt)
July 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
#Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

- #StanleyKunitz
November 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
"We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection."

Poems: allpoetry.com/Stanley-Kunitz

✒ #StanleyKunitz, American poet and translator, was #BOTD 29 July 1905. #Poetry #Literature
July 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
Over a lifetime I've written poems only when I felt I had poems to write. I do not feel apologetic about refusing to convert myself into a machine for producing verse. Sometimes I think that poets have become a nation of monsters.

- #StanleyKunitz
July 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
The poet's first obligation is survival. No bolder challenge confronts the modern artist than to stay healthy in a sick world.

- #StanleyKunitz
April 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
In a murderous time
the heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking.
It is necessary to go
through dark and deeper dark
and not to turn. (The Testing-Tree)

Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/stanle...

✒️ #StanleyKunitz, American poet, passed away #OTD 14 May 2006. #Poetry
May 14, 2026 at 2:21 PM
jestabrick.bsky.social
Touch Me, Stanley Kunitz
BPC Fire Hydrant
Leuchtturm a5 standard
Ians handmade Pens tiger myrtle

"What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.
The longing for the dance
stirs in the buried life.
One season only,
and its done."

#poem #stanleykunitz #americanliterature #fountainpensandink
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Happy Birthday, Stanley Kunitz! | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

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Happy Birthday, Stanley Kunitz! | Poems Rethabile Likes
Celebrating Stanley Kunitz's birthday with his masterful poem 'The Layers' — a meditation on loss, resilience, and transformation
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July 29, 2026 at 4:54 AM
djp1974.bsky.social
Over a lifetime I've written poems only when I felt I had poems to write. I do not feel apologetic about refusing to convert myself into a machine for producing verse. Sometimes I think that poets have become a nation of monsters.

- #StanleyKunitz
July 24, 2026 at 8:43 PM
bardopoetry.bsky.social
#LiteraryBirthday Stanley Kunitz. Pulitzer Prize Winner, US Poet Laureate. #StanleyKunitz #KenBoyd
www.writerswrite.co.za/literary-bir...
July 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
The #poet' s first obligation is survival. No bolder challenge confronts the modern artist than to stay healthy in a sick world.

- #StanleyKunitz
April 26, 2026 at 6:09 PM
djp1974.bsky.social
#Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

- #StanleyKunitz
November 20, 2024 at 4:49 PM