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.

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
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

The Middle of Summer

W. S. Merwin
July 1, 1982