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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin finds inspiration for his poems in his own backyard: a 19-acre palm forest on the island of Maui in Hawaii. WSJ reporter Julia Flynn Siler tours the grounds.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Library of Congress announced that William S. Merwin will become the 17th U.S. poet laureate this fall. He succeeds Kay Ryan, who has held the post since 2008. The 82-year-old ...