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.

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.

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 non-profit Manhattan facility, which contains tens of thousands of books and has hosted readings by everyone from W.S. Merwin to Bill Murray, hopes to reopen by the end of 2021. Arts institutions ...