MONTPELIER – Poets and common folk filled the seats of the Statehouse chamber Thursday afternoon to honor former Vermont Poet Laureate Galway Kinnell. Flanked by his family, Kinnell, 87, of Sheffield ...

Circles are all around us. Galway Kinnell knew this. Much of his poetry explores the organic and spiritual patterns of human and animal motivation. He says of his son in “Fergus Falling”: “He climbed ...

A munificently talented and prolific generation of American poets is leaving us. In recent years, we’ve lost Adrienne Rich, Philip Levine, Maxine Kumin, Daniel Hoffman, Carolyn Kizer, Galway Kinnell, ...

Explore Galway Kinnell's poem with E.O. Wilson, Robert Hass, Laura McPhee and other guests How is the poet’s eye like–or unlike–that of the scientist, the photographer, or of the small child first ...

Galway Kinnell was often compared to his favorite poet, Walt Whitman, whose “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” Kinnell movingly read aloud every year on the far side of the Brooklyn Bridge at a benefit for the ...

The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. When Galway Kinnell accepted the post of Vermont's State Poet in 1989, the honor didn't come without a bit of polite ...

Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He graduated from Princeton University in 1948 and received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Rochester in 1949. During the ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell, known using the everyday as a window into broader themes, has died at his rural Vermont home. He was 87. Kinnell’s wife, Bobbie ...

Poet Galway Kinnell died Tuesday. His career spanned from the end of World War II to the present, earning him a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Home in Vermont, Kinnell died from leukemia.

Galway Kinnell was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, whose work explored the themes of nature, religion and human rights and connected the experiences of daily life to larger forces. He is ...

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who opened up American verse in the 1960s and beyond through his forceful, spiritual takes on the outsiders and underside of ...