Kinnell, Galway

Galway Kinnell (1927 2014) was a former MacArthur Fellow and state poet of Vermont. In 1982 his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For many years he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University, as well as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For thirty-five years from What A Kingdom It Was to The Book of Nightmares to Three Books Galway Kinnell enriched American poetry, not only by his poems but also by his teaching and his powerful public readings.