In the latest memoir installment, I look back at my marriage to Julia.
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Tag Archives: W. S. Merwin
Looking Back at a Lifetime Together
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Trusting the Gift Within
Merwin’s “Gift” helps us understand the meaning of Advent.
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Quiet Hopes for the New Year
Merwin’s New Year poems ushers in the new year very quietly.
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Good Advice from the Late W.S. Merwin
Tuesday I’ve been dilatory in acknowledging the death of W. S. Merwin two weeks ago, but I share today a poem he wrote that offers some good life advice. Although it’s writing advice he received from poet John Berryman when he was young, it extends beyond poetry. As I apply the poem to my own […]
Our New Poet Laureate
W. S. Merwin A very fine poet, W. S. Merwin, has been named our new poet laureate. Because he was a friend of my former colleague Lucille Clifton, I was able to meet Merwin when he visited St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He lives in Hawaii and has been working hard to preserve their rain […]
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