TWA Poet: Galway Kinnell
1927 - 2014
It's the birthday of poet Galway Kinnell, born in Providence, Rhode Island (1927). He initially was turned on by the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson as well as the appeal of their solitary lives.
His roommate at Princeton University was the poet W.S. Merwin, who once woke him up in the middle of the night and read Yeats to him until dawn. A…