They belong to different generations, come from different roots, live in different places. But both are poets writing about a world of living and dying.
Born in 1905, Stanley Kunitz was an integral part of the poetry community until his death in 2006. His list of honors included the National Medal of Arts, a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
In this episode of Sounds of Poetry, Coleman Barks tells Bill how he translates 13th century mystic Rumi's poetry through his own personality and experience.
Poet and political agitator Amiri Baraka, who passed away last Thursday at the age of 79, talks about his work and his activism in this 1999 interview with Bill Moyers.