“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

W.S. Merwin died Friday at the age of 91. He was one of the United States' most prolific poets — he won the Pulitzer Prize twice. Remembering W.S. Merwin Remembering W.S. Merwin MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: ...