W.S. Merwin

Berryman Berryman

A poem from the celebrated late poet, W. S. Merwin.

Mar 19, 2019 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

Home for Thanksgiving

Home for Thanksgiving Home for Thanksgiving

Just before Thanksgiving in 1960, The Nation published W.S. Merwin's poem for the holiday.

Nov 23, 2010 / W.S. Merwin

To the Wires Overhead To the Wires Overhead

This is the year when the swallows did not come back you have not noticed

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To Being Late To Being Late

Again again you are the right time after all not according to however we planned it

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To the Margin To the Margin

Following the black footprints the tracks of words that have passed that way before me I come again and again to your blank shore

Jun 29, 2005 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

To the Unfinished To the Unfinished

Clear eminence without whom I would be nothing oh great provision never seen barely acknowledged even wished away

Mar 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / W.S. Merwin

Poets Against the War Poets Against the War

Here The Nation presents a few of the works posted on "Poets Against the War," (www.poetsagainstthewar.org), the website set up by Sam Hamill, poet and editor, when he ca...

Feb 19, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Alfred Corn, Sam Hamill, W.S. Merwin, Maxine Kumin, and Rita Dove

Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides

Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides Hawaii Wakes Up To Pesticides

The US Department of Agriculture plans to eradicate three species of fruit fly in Hawaii by spraying suspected carcinogens and mutagens on the islands.

Mar 2, 1985 / W.S. Merwin

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