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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Galway Kinnell was born in 1927 in Rhode Island. Feeling, after college, "a certain scorn that there could be a course in writing poetry," as he put it, Kinnell did not go on to study poetry and ...

In 1989, when longtime Sheffield resident Galway Kinnell was appointed poet laureate of Vermont — or “state poet,” as he preferred — by then-governor Madeleine Kunin, he was the first to hold that ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This story first appeared in The Providence Sunday Journal on May 22, 1983. Galway Kinnell died Tuesday of leukemia. NEW YORK -- Midnight approaches in Eddie's, a Greenwich Village bar ...

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 ...

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 ...

Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work explored themes of nature, religion and human rights, died Tuesday of leukemia at 87 in Sheffield, Vt., reports the New York Times. Kinnell ...