page_title: Galway Kinnell
hierarchical_section_title: Galway Kinnell
caption_attribution_description: English: Galway Kinnell, Vermont poet laureate 1989-93, reads his poetry at the Beatnik Party, March 16, 2013 at Grindstone Cafe in Lyndonville, Vermont.
context_page_description: Galway Mills Kinnell was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, Selected Poems and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.
  From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.
  An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps."
context_section_description: Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, Selected Poems and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.
  From 1989 to 1993 he was poet laureate for the state of Vermont.
  An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St. Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps."
caption: Grindstone Cafe
  Lyndonville, Vermont
  March 16, 2013
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