U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin finds inspiration for his poems in his own backyard: a 19-acre palm forest on the island of Maui in Hawaii. WSJ reporter Julia Flynn Siler tours the grounds.

his influence on American poetry has been without equal.” Paula Merwin is shown with her husband, renowned poet W.S. Merwin. Mrs. Merwin died in March 2017 at age 80. Her husband, a two-time ...

Since his appointment, Merwin's poems have come to play a distinct role in the public life of the U.S. When nine people were killed and 13 wounded during the attempted assasination of U.S.

“A new book of poems—or of anything—by Mark Doty is good news in a dark time,” W. S. Merwin once wrote. “The precision, daring, scope, elegance of his compassion and of the language in which he ...

November's guest writer-curator on Something I Heard, Meg Freitag, reads "Thanks" by W.S. Merwin, on the theme of gratitude. Freitag is the author of the poetry collection Edith and This Is a Book for ...