Galway Kinnell

Galway Kinnell is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been state poet of Vermont. He is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Selected Poems, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He teaches at New York University, where he is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing.

Published in VQR

• Walt Whitman and Negative Capability, Spring 2005