Galway Kinnell’s poems straddled the social and the spiritual, focusing on outsiders and the underside of life. He died Tuesday at the age of 87. Over his long career he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship, and he was Vermont’s poet laureate. His friend and fellow poet W. S. Merwin remembered Kinnell as “a very generous soul.” He was a guest on the Leonard Lopate show a number of times, and you can listen to three interviews below.

Galway Kinnell and James Ragan discuss participating in The Lyric Recovery Festival at Carnegie Hall

Galway Kinnell and Rebecca Presson Mosby, who edited the anthology Poetry Speaks, discuss listening to the great poets read their work

Editor-in-chief of Poetry Magazine Joseph Parisi and Galway Kinnell discuss the book Dear Editor: A History of Poetry in Letters: The First Fifty Years, 1912-1962