Galway Kinnell -

: His poetry was deeply informed by his life as an activist. In the 1960s, he worked with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to register Black voters in the South and was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. Galway Kinnell | Smith College

: Often described as a "premiere pantheist," Kinnell utilized nature as a setting where the self and the environment become indistinguishable. Galway Kinnell

: His work frequently explores what it means to be a physical, "creaturely" being subject to death. : His poetry was deeply informed by his life as an activist

Kinnell's poetry is characterized by a "precise and sonorous free verse" that connects personal psychological states to larger cultural and natural forces. Galway Kinnell