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 W.S. Merwin turned an 18-acre abandoned pineapple field into a palm forest with more than 2,000 plants. -- LARRY CAMERON photo W.S. Merwin puts a blueberry on the railing of his lanai for a ...

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 ...

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.

“A new book of poems—or of anything—by Mark Doty is good news in a dark time,” W. S. Merwin once wrote. “The precision, daring, scope, elegance of his compassion and of the language in which he ...