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 ...

This documentary examines the life and work of Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin. This documentary examines the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and environmental activist W.S.

In the 1980s, the two-time U.S. poet laureate moved to Hawaii and began working to restore the rainforest. According to one contemporary, that's... Poet W.S. Merwin, Who Was Inspired By Conservation, ...

Poet W.S. Merwin turned an 18-acre abandoned pineapple field in Peahi into a palm forest with more than 2,000 plants. He died Friday at age 91. LARRY CAMERON photo Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet ...

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. The poet W.S. Merwin was a conservationist, a translator, a Buddhist ...

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 ...

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.

In the late 1970s, the renowned poet W.S. Merwin bought three acres of an old pineapple plantation in Hawaii -- a “paradise lost,” where little would grow due to deforestation and chemicals leftover ...

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 ...

I first encountered the poetry of W.S. Merwin in 1987. I was a newly converted English major, and the assignment was to peruse our poetry anthology and note any poems that intrigued us. I still ...

W. S. Merwin is a poet of paradoxes. In a 60-year career, he has made astonishing poetry of the separation from nature one experiences even in its midst. He has prophesied apocalypse to stave off ...

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 ...