TWA Poet: W.S. Merwin

1927 - 1919

Today is the birthday of American poet, translator, and environmental activist W.S. Merwin (1927), born William Stanley Merwin in New York City. His father, a Presbyterian minister, moved the family from Union City, New Jersey, to Scranton, Pennsylvania, when Merwin was a small boy. It was in Scranton that Merwin first began to feel a deep kinship with …