MONTPELIER, Vt. — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell, known for poems that connected the experiences of daily life to larger forces, has died at age 87.
Kinnell’s wife, Bobbie Bristol, says he died Tuesday afternoon at their home in Sheffield, Vermont. He had leukemia.
Kinnell won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983 for selected poems, and the following year he won a MacArthur Genius Fellowship. He was Vermont’s poet laureate from 1989 to 1993.
A Rhode Island native, Kinnell graduated from Princeton University.
Bristol says Kinnell had owned property in Vermont since 1960 but started living there full-time in 2005 after he retired from New York University. In August, he was honored at the Vermont Statehouse.
Bristol says her husband will be buried on the hill behind their home.
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