W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice, a National Book Award for Poetry, and the Tanning Prize, among others, and was the 17th U.S. Poet Laureate.

December Morning

W. S. Merwin
January 1, 2016
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Here Together

W. S. Merwin
January 1, 2016

Orioles

W. S. Merwin
July 1, 1998

Seed Time

W. S. Merwin
July 1, 1998

That Music

W. S. Merwin
January 1, 1997

The Chinese Mountain Fox

W. S. Merwin
January 1, 1997
Hilma af klimt, Wheat and wormwood, 1922.

Losing a Language

W. S. Merwin
April 1, 1987
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram

Native

W. S. Merwin
April 1, 1987