Featured at this site is an excerpt of the Pulitzer-prize winning author discussing the reason why he began to write, along with a short poem titled "Telephoning in Mexican Sunlight." A good and quick introduction to the writer.

Guide to the Galway Kinnell Papers
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/guides/kinnell/kinnell.html

Click here to visit the "Guide to the Galway Kinnell Papers in the Lilly Library" in Bloomington, Indiana. The papers hosed at this site concern Kinnell's teaching and poetry readings. Here you may access a catalog of the contents of the manuscripts, and then e-mail the library with questions and requests. This is a good place to begin advanced research about the poet, and further correspondence with the library should provide you with a vast amount of information.

Previewport.com: Galway Kinnell
http://www.previewport.com/Home/kinnell.html

Visit Galway Kinnell's page at "Previewport.com" and you'll find several resources at your disposal. Here you may view Kinnell's biography, sign his guest book, join his newsletter, or read short excerpts from a number of his books. An excellent preface to familiarize yourself with the award-winning poet.

Salon Classics: Reckless Genius
http://www.salonmag.com/feature/1997/11/cov_03kinnell.html

Read this article by Kinnell about Emily Dickinson, and be treated to a heartfelt tribute to the "Belle of Amherst." This well-written and insightful article reveals the Pulitzer-prize winning author's style and charm, and is fitting praise for such a great writer as Dickinson. After reading this article, you may join Galway and other poetry aficionados in a "Table-Talk" of the famous writer.

PBS: Galway Kinnell
http://www.wnet.org/foolingwithwords/main_kinnell.html
http://www.wnet.org/foolingwithwords/main_video.html

Visit the Public Broadcasting Corporation's Galway Kinnell page by clicking on the first link. Here you'll be able to read a poem by Kinnell ("After Making Love We Hear Footsteps"), and to view a short biography. Use the second link in order to scroll down and listen to a RealAudio version of his featured poem. A fun site to visit. While you're there, listen to (RealAudio) and look at (Quick Time) some other famous poets.

BIOGRAPHY
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), born in Providence, Rhode Island, received his B.A. from Princeton, where he roomed with W. S. Merwin, and his M.A. from the University of Rochester. Her served in the navy during World War II and traveled to Paris after the war on a Fullbright Scholarship. He held a variety of teaching positions in the 1950s including those at the University of Chicago, the University of Nice, and the University of Iran, before publishing his first volume of poetry, What a Kingdom It Was, in 1960. He attained critical recognition with his 1968 collection, Body Rags. Kinnell's attempt to explore the self through comparisons to objects and animals coupled with unpleasant imagery was reminiscent of Rilke's "object poems". His popularity continued to grow with the publication of The Book of Nightmares (1971) a bleak ten-part poem about loss and mortality, and Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980). His Selected Poems won the Pulitzer prize and the American Book Award in 1982. Apart from his own poems, he has published translations of Francois Villion and Ranier Maria Rilke, among others. His prose includes one novel, Black Light (1966), and a collection of interviews, Walking Down the Stairs (1978). A former MacArthur fellow and state poet of Vermont, he teaches creative writing at New York University.