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All posts tagged W. S. Merwin

  • W.S. Merwin’s Poet Laureate Appointment a Missed Opportunity for Diversity?
    by Elizabeth Hoover / July 1, 2010

    As an estimated 60,000 barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico in one day of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill—the Library of Congress named W.S. Merwin the next Poet Laureate. Merwin, 82, is a staunch environmentalist who actively works to save the fragile ecosystem in his home state of Hawaii.

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