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.
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