Poet Galway Kinnell dies at 87

Award-winning poet Galway Kinnell has lost his battle with leukaemia at the age of 87. The writer passed away at his home in Vermont on Tuesday (28Oct14).
The Rhode Island native won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1983 for his Selected Poems collection, which also earned him the National Book Award for Poetry, an honour he shared with Charles Wright.
He served as poet laureate for Vermont from 1989 to 1993 and permanently moved there in 2005 following a stint at New York University, where he worked as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing.
Kinnell’s most famous works include St. Francis and the Sow, The Bear, After Making Love We Hear Footsteps, and When the Towers Fell, about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City.