The former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, who was known for his antiwar and ecological activism, died on Friday in his home in Maui at the age of ninety-one. Between 1955 and 2014, Merwin published ...

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin, a former United States poet laureate, died Friday in his sleep at his Peahi home, where he lived for about four decades. He was 91 years old. Copper ...

W.S. Merwin, whose austere lyricism in poems about the fragility of the natural world and the horrors of the Vietnam War earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and made him one of the preeminent ...

W. S. Merwin, who died last week at age 91, wrote in a lyric register to capture the epic brutality and organized violence of the 20th century. His poems are promontories from which readers can see, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) — W.S. Merwin, a prolific and decorated poet who celebrated nature, condemned war and industrialism and reached for the elusive past, died Friday at his Maui home. He was 91.

W.S. Merwin, celebrated poet and conservationist who wrote about the fragility and beauty of the natural world and the impermanence of human life within it, has died at 91. The Merwin Conservancy, a ...

One of America's most respected and enduring poets, W.S. Merwin, has died. Merwin's poetry is known for its mystery and wonder, and he was twice named the U.S. poet laureate. He also won a National ...

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 ...

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; Photo Copyright: Matt Valentine, via the U.S. Library of Congress. The Library of Congress has appointed W.S. Merwin as the 17th Poet Laureate Consultant ...

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 ...