I found out that the elegiac poet W. S. Merwin had passed away the same day I was accepted to Cornell. The Ides of March arrived on a brisk, overcast day in the Upper East Side of New York City, with ...

“Every year without knowing I have passed the day,” writes W.S. Merwin in “For the Anniversary of My Death.” That day was last Friday, when the former U.S. Poet Laureate passed away in his Maui home.

While wrapping up his interview with Michael Silverblatt, U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin wondered — why can’t interviewers simply read previous interviews to glean answers to repeated questions?

Smith College will present a reading and conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, in Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall. The reading is free and open to ...

When W.S. Merwin was 18 or so, John Berryman told him: “You should get down on your knees and pray to the muse, right there in the corner.” It was an early lesson from an esteemed poet and teacher.

W.S. Merwin won his second Pulitzer Prize for poetry on April 20. In a 2008 interview, Merwin talked with Fresh Air about memory, mortality and... W. S. Merwin: The 'Sirius' Side Of Poetry W.S. Merwin ...

W.S. Merwin, a formidable American poet who for more than 60 years labored under a formidable poetic yoke: the imperative of using language — an inescapably concrete presence on the printed page — to ...

William Stanley Merwin has been garnering praise for his poetry, translations, and prose since W.H. Auden awarded his first book, A Mask for Janus (1952), the Yale Younger Poets Prize. For over five ...

W.S. Merwin, one of this country's most distinguished, decorated and productive poets, has been named the 17th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the United States. The position, created under a ...

Just how, exactly, does one critique the latest book by someone routinely referred to as "one of the world's greatest living poets," who has published more than 30 books of poems, prose and ...

IN 1977, W.S. Merwin—a future U.S. poet laureate—bought a parcel of land in Ha’iku, on the northeast coast of Maui, Hawaii. It wasn’t promising. Stripped of nutrients by farmers trying (and failing) ...