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.

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 ...

Collected Poems by Galway Kinnell, introduction by Edward Hirsch, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 640 pages. $35.

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.

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 contemporary life, has ...

Book News: Remembering Poet Galway Kinnell, Whose Song Said Everything : The Two-Way The Pulitzer Prize winner has died at the age of 87. In his deceptively simple poetry and in his activism ...

The publication of his “Collected Poems” is a significant literary event, marked last week by a deeply personal event for family and friends of the poet, who died in 2014.

Jackson, the UVM professor who met Kinnell after inviting him to a poetry reading in Portland, Ore., in 1998, said Kinnell taught him the importance of thinking how a poem is composed and "making ...

Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who opened up American verse in the 1960s and beyond through his forceful, spiritual observations on the outsiders and underside of contemporary ...

Poetry For Galway Kinnell: Confessions, A Blessing. NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED. ... America's poets have only to relax into this, to lean-as Galway Kinnell says-"in any direction, ...

Kinnell’s reading will be followed by a book sale and signing. For further information, contact Jennifer Blackburn in the Poetry Center office at (413) 585-4891 or Ellen Doré Watson, Poetry Center ...

Left: Poet Galway Kinnell speaks during Poets House's 17th Annual Poetry Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge on June 11, 2012 in Brooklyn, New York. Kinnell died Tuesday at age 87. Photo by Ilya S ...