MONTPELIER (AP) - The former poet laureate for Vermont - Galway Kinnell - is being honored at the Statehouse.
A reception and readings of Kinnell's poems by other poets will be held on Thursday at 3 p.m.
The free event is open to the public.
Kinnell has lived and worked in Sheffield for more than 50 years.
Kinnell won a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was poet laureate for Vermont from 1989 to 1993.