The sounds of wind and rain and the images of trees and pastures form melancholy leitmotifs in the latest volume of lyrics by this master prosodist. All slight and ...

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 ...

In the 1980s, the two-time U.S. poet laureate moved to Hawaii and began working to restore the rainforest. According to one contemporary, that's... Poet W.S. Merwin, Who Was Inspired By Conservation, ...

This documentary examines the life and work of Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin. This documentary examines the life and work of Poet Laureate, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and environmental activist W.S.

I first encountered the poetry of W.S. Merwin in 1987. I was a newly converted English major, and the assignment was to peruse our poetry anthology and note any poems that intrigued us. I still ...

In the late 1970s, the renowned poet W.S. Merwin bought three acres of an old pineapple plantation in Hawaii -- a “paradise lost,” where little would grow due to deforestation and chemicals leftover ...

The former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin, who was known for his antiwar and ecological activism, died on Friday in his home in Maui at the age of ninety-one. Between 1955 and 2014, Merwin published ...

W.S. Merwin, whose austere lyricism in poems about the fragility of the natural world and the horrors of the Vietnam War earned him two Pulitzer Prizes and made him one of the preeminent ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) — W.S. Merwin, a prolific and decorated poet who celebrated nature, condemned war and industrialism and reached for the elusive past, died Friday at his Maui home. He was 91.

W.S. Merwin died Friday at the age of 91. He was one of the United States' most prolific poets — he won the Pulitzer Prize twice. The poet W.S. Merwin was a conservationist, a translator, a Buddhist ...

In the beginning, not even native plants would grow. The land had been deforested for firewood to fuel the whaling ships that anchored by the island, and then it was used as grazing land by the ...

One of America's most respected and enduring poets, W.S. Merwin, has died. Merwin's poetry is known for its mystery and wonder, and he was twice named the U.S. poet laureate. He also won a National ...