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
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
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