Many consider the poet Galway Kinnell, who died last October at age 87, to be one of those rare and serious talents who come along only once or twice in a generation. And yet Kinnell was not above a ...
Galway Kinnell was a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, an anti-war activist, a member of the civil-rights group Congress of Racial Equality, and a devoted husband and father. He was not a man of faith. And ...
Poetry is often referred to as an art, and it is one, but it’s also a practical tool. It can jostle your brain into new thoughts, change your mood with only a few words, keep you company like an old ...
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 ...
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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, ...
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 ...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The late Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet Galway ...
FROM BLACK MOUNTAIN TO MONTGOMERY: In 1965, poet Galway Kinnell joined the march from Selma to Montgomery. While in Montgomery, he was struck in the head by a state trooper's billy club. Kinnell first ...
Bill Murray continues his habit of popping up in unexpected places – from passed out front row at the Late Show to being dumbfounded by a last-second shot at the NCAA basketball tournament – this ...
A celebration of the life and work of poet Galway Kinnell 1927-2014, co-founder of the NYU Creative Writing Program. With Toi Derricote, Mark Doty, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Hass, Edward Hirsch, ...
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