Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Galway Kinnell To Read At ‘Berg
Poet Galway Kinnell, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry, will give a public reading at Muhlenberg College on Monday, January 29 at 7 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.Monday, January 22, 2007 01:59 PM
Kinnell is the author of thirteen books of poetry and one of the most influential and celebrated American poets of our time. He has become famous for his powerful readings of his poetry. For his Selected Poems (1982), he received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Poetry. He is perhaps best known for The Book of Nightmares (1971), a series of ten poems that meditate on birth and death, on the civil rights movement, the destructiveness of man and the Vietnam War. Kinnell’s most recent volume of poetry is titled, Strong is Your Hold (2006), which includes a searching elegy on 9-11.
Until his recent retirement, he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at NYU.
This public reading is free and open to the public, and is part of Living Writers, a semester-long series of public readings. Future readings will be given by novelists Jonathan Franzen (2/12), Sue Miller (2/26) and Laurie Stone (3/19), poet Barbara Reyes (4/2) and playwright Brighde Mullins (4/23).
