Join us as we kick off the 2008-09 Poetry Season with living legend, W.S. Merwin.
A student of R.P. Blackmur and John Berryman. A tutor for Robert Graves’ children. Selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Friends with Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Pulitzer and Lilly Prize, as well as Lannan Lifetime Achievement and National Book Award winner. Translator. Buddhist. Environmentalist.