Poet W.S. Merwin turned an 18-acre abandoned pineapple field in Peahi into a palm forest with more than 2,000 plants. He died Friday at age 91. LARRY CAMERON photo Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Poet W.S. Merwin turned an 18-acre abandoned pineapple field into a palm forest with more than 2,000 plants. -- LARRY CAMERON photo W.S. Merwin puts a blueberry on the railing of his lanai for a ...

This documentary examines the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin. His tangible actions to nurture his surrounding environment go ...

Perhaps the best-known tree collector is the poet W.S. Merwin, who, from the 1970s to his death in 2019, created a whole forest of palms from seeds he and his wife gathered from around the world.

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.

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in ...

“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 ...

Says W.S. Merwin of her poems, “They are inseparable from the surprising, unrolling, eventful, pure current of their language, and they convey at once the pain of individual loss, a steady and utterly ...