Readings by Poets Galway Kinnell and Kirtland Snyder
The University Gallery is pleased to present a special evening of poetry readings by acclaimed poets Galway Kinnell and Kirtland Snyder in conjunction with the exhibition "The Miraculous in the Everyday." The exhibition is on view through March 12, 2006. A book signing will follow the readings.
Galway Kinnell has published ten books of poetry, and has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He has also published translations of the work of Yves Bonnefoy, Francois Villon, and Rainer Maria Rilke. Kinnell is a former Vermont State Poet. He teaches at New York University, where he is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing.
Kirtland Snyder has published two chapbooks of poetry, one of them in collaboration with the American activist-painter, Leon Golub, and a spoken-word CD, "Walking with Thoreau". His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and is among the poetry considered in Susan Gubar's critical study, "Poetry After Auschwitz".
Galway Kinnell's Reading is made possible with kind support from the English Department; the Department of Comparative Literature; the Offices of the Dean, College of Humanities and Fine Arts; the Vice Provost for Research, and the Vice Provost for Outreach at the University of Massachusetts; English Department, Amherst College and The Poetry Center at Smith College.
