W. S. Merwin

W. S. Merwin received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for The Shadow of Sirius. His many works of poetry and translation included Present Company (2007), Migration: New and Selected Poems (2005), and a version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2004). He lived in Hawaii.

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Shore Birds
Published in The Atlantic in 1998
W. S. Merwin
August 18, 2024
Miki Lowe
To Age
A poem by W. S. Merwin, published in The Atlantic in 2002
W. S. Merwin
January 9, 2022
Miki Lowe
Unknown Bird
A poem by W. S. Merwin, published in The Atlantic in 1999
W. S. Merwin
June 6, 2021
Miki Lowe
W. S. Merwin: Twelve Poems
The 82-year old poet and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner has just been named U.S. Poet Laureate. Hear him read his work aloud.
W. S. Merwin
July 1, 2010
Poetry: W. S. Merwin, 'Green Fields'
Hear the author read his poem, first published in the February 1995 'Atlantic'
W. S. Merwin
April 8, 2010
To Smoke
W. S. Merwin
September 1, 2003
To a Tortoiseshell Lyre
W. S. Merwin
September 1, 2003
To My Teeth
W. S. Merwin
June 1, 2002
To Age
W. S. Merwin
February 1, 2002
Three Poems
W. S. Merwin
April 1, 1997