The sounds of wind and rain and the images of trees and pastures form melancholy leitmotifs in the latest volume of lyrics by this master prosodist. All slight and ...

Renowned poet W. S. Merwin will make two separate public appearances, on April 19 and 20, at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. On April 19, Merwin will read from his work at 7 p.m. The ...

W. S. Merwin’s poetry first appeared in The New Yorker in 1955, and the magazine has since published close to two hundred of his poems and short stories. His first poetry collection, “A Mask for Janus ...

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 ...

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 was a man of many callings. He was an incredibly prolific poet—he won the Pulitzer Prize twice, along with nearly every other major literary award. He also dedicated his life to ...

When W.S. Merwin won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2005, the judges' citation said "Merwin's poems speak from a lifelong belief in the power of words to awaken our drowsy souls and see the ...

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 ...

Our country's poet laureates are selected with great care by the Librarian of Congress, who consults with the current and former laureates and poetry critics. While it's a pretty sweet honor, with a ...

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 ...