Galway Kinnell

Selected Poetic Works
gray titles are available in the Alexander Mack Library

Poems for consideration

"First Song"

"Blackberry Eating"

Kinnell on the Web

poems (some will require you to scroll down)

• "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" site 1 2 3 4 (audio) 
• "Another Night in the Ruins #7" site 1 (with music)
• "The Bear" site 1 
• "Blackberry Eating" site 1 2 3 4 5 6 
• “The Cellist” site 1 2 3 
• “The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye To His Poetry Students” site 1 2 
• "Daybreak"site 1 2 3 4 (audio)
• “The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible” site 1
• "Fergus Falling"site 1 2 3 4 
• "First Song" site 1 (with rudimentary commentary) 2 3 (with audio beginning at 3:15)
• "The Fundamental Project of Technology" site 1 (with audio)
• "Goodbye"site 1
• "How Could You Not" site 1 2 3 4 
• "Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight" site 1 2 3 4 5 
• "Oatmeal"site 1 2 3 
• “The Olive Wood Fire” site 1
• "On Frozen Fields" site 1 
• "Parkinson's Disease" site 1
• "The Perch" site 1 2 3 4 
• "Poem of Night"site 1 2 3 4 
• "Prayer" site 1 (with music) 
• "St. Francis and the Sow"site 1 2 3 (audio) 4 (with music) 5 
• "Spring Oak" site 1 
• "Telephoning in Mexican Sunlight" site 1 2 3 (with commentary) 4
• "To Christ Our Lord" site 1
• "Two Seasons" site 1 2 3 
• "Vapor Train Reflected in the Frog Pond" site 1 2 
• "Wait" site 1 2 3 
• "When the Towers Fell" site 1

audio only

• section six of “The Avenue Bearing The Initial Of Christ Into The New World” read by Philip Levine
• “The Sow Piglet’s Escapes” read by Galway Kinnell (after two other poems)
• "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" 
• "Another Night in the Ruins", "A Milk Bottle," The Frog Pond" 

Video

"Wait"