October 1: Poet Galway Kinnell, a certified (MacArthur) genius
Over a career in poetry that spans five decades and twelve collections, Galway Kinnell has received the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Frost Medal, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In the nomination for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell “America’s preeminent visionary” whose work “greets each new age with rapture and abundance [and] sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, Frost.” Wow.
When: Monday October 1, 7:30 PM
Where: Butler University, Atherton Union Reilly Room 4600 Sunset Ave Indianapolis, IN 46208
Free and open to the public
Kinnell is renowned as an especially sensuous poet and moving reader. By giving public readings since 1960, Kinnell has been influential in making the poetry reading a part of our cultural life. His varied career has taken him to Iran as a teacher and journalist and to Louisiana as a fieldworker for the Congress of Racial Equality. Kinnell has served as the State Poet of Vermont, and was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University for 25 years. He is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He lives in Vermont.
If this sounds interesting, check out … the other poets coming to town, as well as the performance of Rumi’s poetry September 29.
September 4th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
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