Galway Kinnell Tickets Still Available
Posted By admin on July 23, 2010
Title: Pulitzer Prize winning poet Galway Kinnell
Location: Conkling Hall (limited to 100)
Description: Galway Kinnell is “one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century.” (Wikipedia) Galway is the author of ten books of poetry, including The Book of Nightmares, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone, Imperfect Thirst, and most recently A New Selected Poems and Strong is Your Hold. He also published a novel, Black Light; a selection of interviews, Walking Down the Stairs; and a book for children, as well as translations of works by Bonnefoy, Goll, Villon and Rilke. A former MacArthur Fellow and State Poet of Vermont, he has been a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. In 1982, his Selected Poems won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and in 2002, he was awarded the Frost Medal by the Poetry Society of America.
Cost: $10.00 (includes wine and cheese) Contact the Library.
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