(Wendy) It's called Trees, and it's built on a poem by W.S. Merwin, former U.S. poet laureate, he has visited The Poetry Center many times over the decades. This is a special book to us because it ...

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 ...

The course drew on the examples of well-known American poet/translators such as Robert Bly, W.S. Merwin, Ursula Le Guin, Carloyn Forche and others whose aim was to “rewrite” a poem from one language ...

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And wylde for to hold, though I seme tame. W.S. MERWIN: I think this is probably the greatest sonnet Wyatt wrote, and I think it's one of the greatest sonnets in English. I've known it for so many ...

Almost every nation has its national epic, usually an account from early in its history of the martial exploits of a warrior-hero. For example, in England, there’s “Beowulf”; in France ...

A new award was introduced at this year’s event, the Rookie of the Year Award which ... Keith Morgan for 15 years, J.W. Lindsey for 10 years, Brian Merwin for 10 years, and Daniel Guavara for 5 years.

I love fairytales. I love the Hans Christian Andersen version of ‘The Little Mermaid’ where she dies at the end.” Even with ...

It's been a while since we were last in Westeros, but tomorrow, we'll get a glimpse into another of George R.R. Martin's ...