Galway Kinnell was an American poet born in 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. His poetry connects with everyday experiences and to unseen spiritual forces. His poems are incredibly relatable and often utilize moving free verse.
Galway Kinnell’s ‘After Making Love We Hear Footsteps’ is a beautiful poem about parenthood and love. This piece presents a familiar scene that often occurs in a married couple’s life.
For I can snore like a bullhorn
or play loud music
or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman
‘Saint Francis and the Sow,’ a poem from Galway Kinnell’s collection Mortal Acts, Mortal Words (1980), explores the spiritual beauty inside each creature that is needed to be retaught and retouched for spiritual growth.
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
‘The Bear’ by Galway Kinnell is an unforgettable poem that details the physical struggle between a hunter and a bear he’s pursuing as well as the hunter’s spiritual transformation.
In late winter
I sometimes glimpse bits of steam
coming up from
some fault in the old snow
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