National Poetry Month #16 – Galway Kinnell

bench in a forest

The late Galway Kinnell, who was a Vermont Poet Laureate and a National Book Award Winner, reads his poem “Wait” in this 1986 video. Although the poem is inspired by his student who was contemplating suicide, the poem speaks to all of us who are tired.

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