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My Interview with the Son of Poet James Patrick Kinney

by Susan Hawkins

I hope you’re on this page because you just read our featured poem, “The Cold Within”. If not, you might just want to click here to read the poem and the story behind it, so you’ll know why we think James Patrick Kinney should be celebrated as a man who brought the ideals in Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “If” to life.

The author of “The Cold Within”, James Patrick Kinney, was born on March 16, 1923, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On May 29, 1974, he left this world, and he left it better than he found it. A man of integrity, Kinney lived his principles and created a poem that spoke his heart.

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And if you think it’s the only poem he wrote—you’d be wrong.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Jim Kinney’s son, Timothy, about his father, the poem, and the possible consequences of doing the right thing. Here, as they say, is the rest of the story—and mor Michael Jackson | Biography, Albums, Songs, Thriller, Beat It ...

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