W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin (1927-2019) was an American poet who won two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award. He served as the seventeenth U.S. Poet Laureate.
Poetry

December Morning

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

Here Together

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

Variations to the Accompaniment of a Cloud

W. S. Merwin
January 1, 2016
Hilma af klimt, Wheat and wormwood, 1922.
Poetry

Losing a Language

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

Native

W. S. Merwin
April 1, 1987
From the Archives

The Middle of Summer

W. S. Merwin
July 1, 1982