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Stuart had a cousin, Cleo, who worked in one of the towers. The story goes that she stopped for coffee that morning and escaped the disaster. It's not clear on what floor she worked. He is lately (2025) fixed on 9/11 and is watching numerous videos and movies based on the unimaginable disaster. An acrophobe, he cannot fathom the choices the victims faced above the impact zones. He believes Welles Remy Crowther is one of the greatest Americans and defines heroism. He is trying to work it all out through poetry. It is past the time of rescuing anyone, but he offers some solace in alternative views of that day, ones of imagined rescue. In the real world, he has sent fire safety ideas to fire departments in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, the last of which has an active helicopter rescue plan. He views that day as Hell on Earth and hopes you will allow him to rectify the tragedy - even though only in poetry.
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Stuart Kurtz was raised in Bayside, Queens as a firm lover of New York. He is a published poet on Sheepshead Review, Poetry Quarterly, Ascent Aspirations, etc., and was a house poet on Verse-Virtual. He loves ekphrastic poems, which are meditations on other artworks. He creates what he calls "photopoems," which are photos interspersed with photos of buildings that are poetic journeys through these environments. He is a regular poet reading his own work on Sterling Warner's "The Union of Poets." Warner honored Stuart by having him review his Cracks of Light, Pandemic Poetry & Fiction 2019-2022; and with a quote of approval for Halcyon Days. He read works for Halloween for Cambridge Community TV in Massachusetts.
Stuart is a playwright, appearing regularly on Moving Parts, a Paris Zoom, with his 10 minute plays. He is working on an epic environmental play. Many of his works, both plays, and poetry, deal with architecture and its effects on our psyches. A review of PSFS is on his website, and it relates to his 9/11 poem in its uplifting sensibility.
He holds a B.A. in English from NYU and a certificate in cultural journalism from Emerson College. He also holds a certificate from the International Tour Management Institute.
He was deeply disturbed by 9/11 and wishes to address that wrong and offer some kind of hope through looking at the event from alternative angles.