W.S. Merwin Appointed Next Poet Laureate

The Library of Congress has announced that William Stanley Merwin will succeed Kay Ryan as Poet Laureate this October.

You can find out about him through his entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica and in this biographical information from Bloom’s Major Poets in Literary Reference Center.

Find his works in a library near you in WorldCat and get an overview of his publications in his WorldCat identity. See literary criticism, reviews, and some of his poems in Literary Reference Center.

The Library of Congress also offers the United States Poets Laureate: A Guide to Online Resources, which has already been updated to include resources on W. S. Merwin, as well as additional poetry resources.

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