The Garden & The Sword
Joel Whitney interviews the new U.S. Poet Laureate, W. S. Merwin.
W.S. Merwin
W.S. Merwin and the nameless
The November/December 2010 issue of The American Poetry Review came in the mail today. It features fourteen new poems by W.S. Merwin. Here’s one: Looking Up in the Garden‪These trees have no names‬whatever we call them…
Buddhist named U.S. Poet Laureate
Yesterday, the US Library of Congress named W.S. Merwin as the country’s Poet Laureate. Merwin, who moved to Hawaii in 1976 to study Zen with Robert Aitken, is a longtime Buddhist and a prolific writer. His…
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