Columbia's Miller Theatre and the writing division of the School of the Arts will host the nation's Poet Laureate and former Columbia Professor Stanley Kunitz, as well as former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and Adjunct Professor April Bernard, for the second of its two-part "Poets on Poets" series on Tues., Nov. 28, at 8:00 p.m.

Moderated and introduced by Adjunct Professor Alice Quinn, poetry editor of The New Yorker, the poets will read from their work and from poets who have inspired them. This public event is presented with the support of the Axe-Houghton Foundation.

Kunitz, whose first poem appeared in 1930, has written ten books of verse. W. W. Norton has just published The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz. His selected poems, Passing Through, won the National Book Award in l995, one of many honors he has received, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. As the nation's newest Poet Laureate, Kunitz is also its oldest--he turned 95 this year.

Kunitz taught at Columbia for 22 years. Beginning as a lecturer in English in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1963, he was a professor of writing in Columbia's School of the Arts from 1968 to 1985, and continues to maintain close ties with the writing division as a lecturer and friend.

As part of the series, Kunitz will read poems of his own and poems by William Blake. Quinn said, "It will be a great privilege to listen to Stanley on the subject of William Blake, his spiritual forbear."

Pinsky preceded Kunitz as poet laureate, and during his career has published six books of poetry. In addition to his verse, he has written four books of criticism, a computerized novel and two translations, including The Inferno of Dante, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Howard Morton Landon Prize. He teaches in the graduate writing program of Boston University and is a frequent Columbia writing division visitor.

In addition to two volumes of poems, Bernard's work has appeared in a wide variety of publications. She enjoyed a long career as a book and magazine editor before turning to teaching. She is a Columbia School of the Arts adjunct professor and teaches concurrently at Bennington College. She previously taught at Amherst and Yale.

In its third year, Quinn's class "Poets on Poets" brings contemporary poets to campus to discuss the work of favorite predecessors. The poets teach graduate classes in the writing division of the School of the Arts and also read for the public at Miller Theatre.

Tickets ($15, $7 with CUID) for "Poets on Poets" may be purchased at the Miller Theatre Box Office, 116th and Broadway, from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. Monday-Friday. For more information call 212-854-7799.