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W. S. Merwin

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William Stanley Merwin (born September 30, 1927) is an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose. [1]

171 relations: Academy of Achievement, Academy of American Poets, Adrienne Rich, Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, Alain-René Lesage, Allen Ginsberg, Amazon (company), American Academy of Arts and Letters, Antonio Porchia, Arts Council of Great Britain, Ben Lerner, Bollingen Prize, Boston, Buddhism, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Clarence Brown, Columbia University Press, Copper Canyon Press, Craig Arnold, Dante Alighieri, Deep ecology, Denise Levertov, Divine Comedy, Draft evasion, El Cid, Euripides, Even Though the Whole World Is Burning, Ford Foundation, Greenwich Village, Hawaii, Hawaiian tropical rainforests, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Indiana University Press, Iphigenia in Aulis, Jaime Sabines, James Wright (poet), Jean Follain, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Jonathan Cape, Kay Ryan, Lazarillo de Tormes, Library of America, Library of Congress, Lope de Rueda, Louise Glück, Maui, Maurice English, Middle English, Miss Cleo, Musō Soseki, ..., National Book Award, National Book Award for Poetry, National Book Foundation, National Geographic Society, New York City, Nicolas Chamfort, Orpheus, Osip Mandelstam, Pablo Neruda, PEN Translation Prize, Pierre de Marivaux, Poetry (magazine), Poetry Foundation, Princeton University, Prose, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Purgatorio, Quechuan languages, Rita Dove, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Roberto Juarroz, Rockefeller Foundation, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Sanskrit, Sōiku Shigematsu, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Shelley Memorial Award, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Struga Poetry Evenings, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, The Hudson Reporter, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign), The Song of Roland, The Washington Post, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Union City, New Jersey, United States Poet Laureate, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Vietnam War, W. H. Auden, Wyoming Seminary, Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, Yale University Library, Yale University Press, Yiddish, Yusef Komunyakaa, Zbigniew Herbert, Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award, 1952 in poetry, 1954 in poetry, 1956 in poetry, 1957 in literature, 1957 in poetry, 1958 in literature, 1959 in poetry, 1960 in poetry, 1961 in literature, 1961 in poetry, 1962 in literature, 1962 in poetry, 1963 in poetry, 1964 in literature, 1966 in literature, 1966 in poetry, 1967 in poetry, 1969 in literature, 1969 in poetry, 1970 in literature, 1970 in poetry, 1971 in poetry, 1973 in literature, 1973 in poetry, 1974 in literature, 1974 in poetry, 1975 in poetry, 1977 in literature, 1977 in poetry, 1978 in literature, 1978 in poetry, 1979 in literature, 1979 in poetry, 1981 in poetry, 1982 in literature, 1982 in poetry, 1983 in poetry, 1985 in literature, 1987 in poetry, 1988 in poetry, 1989 in poetry, 1990 in poetry, 1992 in literature, 1993 in poetry, 1994 in poetry, 1996 in poetry, 1997 in poetry, 1998 in poetry, 1999 in poetry, 2000 in poetry, 2001 in poetry, 2002 in literature, 2004 in literature, 2004 in poetry, 2005 in literature, 2005 in poetry, 2007 in literature, 2008 in poetry, 2009 in poetry, 2010 in poetry, 2013 in poetry, 2014 in poetry, 2016 in poetry, 2017 in poetry. Expand index (121 more) »

Academy of Achievement

The Academy of Achievement, officially known as the American Academy of Achievement, was founded in 1961 by Sports Illustrated and LIFE magazine photographer Brian Reynolds to bring together accomplished people from diverse fields in order to network and to encourage the next generation of young leaders.

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Academy of American Poets

The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.

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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.

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Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry

The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career.

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Alain-René Lesage

Alain-René Lesage (6 May 166817 November 1747; older spelling Le Sage) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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Antonio Porchia

Antonio Porchia (November 13, 1885 – November 9, 1968) was an Argentinian poet.

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Arts Council of Great Britain

The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain.

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Ben Lerner

Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic.

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Bollingen Prize

The Bollingen Prize for Poetry is a literary honor bestowed on an American poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Buddhism

Buddhism is the world's fourth-largest religion with over 520 million followers, or over 7% of the global population, known as Buddhists.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Clarence Brown

Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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Copper Canyon Press

Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, specializing in the publication of poetry and located in Port Townsend, Washington.

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Craig Arnold

Craig Arnold (November 16, 1967 – c. April 27, 2009) was an American poet and professor.

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Dante Alighieri

Durante degli Alighieri, commonly known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante (c. 1265 – 1321), was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages.

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Deep ecology

Deep ecology is an ecological and environmental philosophy promoting the inherent worth of living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas.

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Denise Levertov

Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was an American poet.

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Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia) is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321.

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Draft evasion

Draft evasion is any successful attempt to elude a government-imposed obligation to serve in the military forces of one's nation.

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El Cid

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1099) was a Castilian nobleman and military leader in medieval Spain.

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Euripides

Euripides (Εὐριπίδης) was a tragedian of classical Athens.

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Even Though the Whole World Is Burning

Even Though the Whole World Is Burning is a feature documentary film about former United States Poet Laureate and environmental activist W. S. Merwin.

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Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation is a New York-headquartered, globally oriented private foundation with the mission of advancing human welfare.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Hawaiian tropical rainforests

The Hawaiian tropical rainforests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in the Hawaiian Islands.

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Honolulu Star-Bulletin

The Honolulu Star-Bulletin was a daily newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.

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Indiana University Press

Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences.

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Iphigenia in Aulis

Iphigenia in Aulis or at Aulis (Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι, Iphigeneia en Aulidi; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide) is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripides.

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Jaime Sabines

Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez (March 25, 1926 – March 19, 1999) was a Mexican contemporary poet.

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James Wright (poet)

James Arlington Wright (December 13, 1927 – March 25, 1980) was an American poet.

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Jean Follain

Jean Follain (29 August 1903 – 10 March 1971) was a French author, poet and corporate lawyer.

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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (born March 28, 1941 as Jeffrey Lloyd Masson) is an American author.

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Jonathan Cape

Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in 1921 by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in 1960.

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Kay Ryan

Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945) is an American poet and educator.

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Lazarillo de Tormes

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades) is a Spanish novella, published anonymously because of its anticlerical content.

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Library of America

The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lope de Rueda

Lope de Rueda (c.1510–1565) was a Spanish dramatist and author, regarded by some as the best of his era.

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Louise Glück

Louise Elisabeth Glück (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet.

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Maui

The island of Maui (Hawaiian) is the second-largest of the Hawaiian Islands at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km2) and is the 17th-largest island in the United States.

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Maurice English

Maurice English (October 21, 1909 – November 18, 1983) was a poet, reporter, and author who is noted for having headed the presses of the University of Chicago, Temple University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Middle English

Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.

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Miss Cleo

Youree Dell Harris (August 12, 1962 – July 26, 2016) was an American television personality best known as Miss Cleo, a spokeswoman for a psychic pay-per-call service from 1997 to 2003.

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Musō Soseki

was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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National Book Award for Poetry

The National Book Award for Poetry is one of four annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by US citizens.

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National Book Foundation

The National Book Foundation (NBF) is an American nonprofit organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America".

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nicolas Chamfort

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort (6 April 1741 – 13 April 1794), was a French writer, best known for his witty epigrams and aphorisms.

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Orpheus

Orpheus (Ὀρφεύς, classical pronunciation) is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth.

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Osip Mandelstam

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (p; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian Jewish poet and essayist.

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Pablo Neruda

Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973), better known by his pen name and, later, legal name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician.

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PEN Translation Prize

The PEN Translation Prize (formerly known as the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize through 2008) is an annual award given by the PEN American Center to outstanding translations into the English language.

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Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (4 February 1688 – 12 February 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist.

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Poetry (magazine)

Poetry (founded as, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse), published in Chicago since 1912, is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world.

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Poetry Foundation

The Poetry Foundation is a Chicago-based American foundation created to promote poetry in the wider culture.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Prose

Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Purgatorio

Purgatorio (Italian for "Purgatory") is the second part of Dante's Divine Comedy, following the Inferno, and preceding the Paradiso.

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Quechuan languages

Quechua, usually called Runasimi ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Andes and highlands of South America.

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Rita Dove

Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.

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Robert Bly

Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, essayist, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Roberto Juarroz

Roberto Juarroz (5 October 1925 – 31 March 1995) was an Argentine poet famous for his "Poesía vertical" (Vertical poetry).

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

The Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize is awarded annually by The Poetry Foundation; the foundation also publishes ''Poetry''.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism; a philosophical language of Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism; and a former literary language and lingua franca for the educated of ancient and medieval India.

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Sōiku Shigematsu

is a Japanese priest of Myoshin-ji branch of Rinzai School of Zen Buddhism, abbot of Shōgen-ji Temple in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, author and translator of books and essays on Zen that were instrumental in spreading interest in Zen literary tradition to the West in the latter half of the 20th century.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is the sixth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie and Reading.

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Shelley Memorial Award

The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English: Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt) is a late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance.

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Struga Poetry Evenings

Struga Poetry Evenings (SPE) (Струшки вечери на поезијата, СВП; tr. Struški večeri na poezijata, SVP) is an international poetry festival held annually in Struga, Macedonia.

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer.

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Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes (17 August 1930 – 28 October 1998) was an English poet and children's writer.

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The Hudson Reporter

The Hudson Reporter is a newspaper chain based in Hudson County, New Jersey.

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The Hudson Review

The Hudson Review is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts.

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The Kenyon Review

The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College.

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The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

The Rare Book & Manuscript Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (RBML) is located on the 3rd floor of the University Library.

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The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland) is an epic poem (Chanson de geste) based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778, during the reign of Charlemagne.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada) is a collection of romantic poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, first published in 1924 by Editorial Nascimento of Santiago, when Neruda was 19.

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Union City, New Jersey

Union City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States.

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United States Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States.

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University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

The University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (also known as U of I, Illinois, or colloquially as the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public research university in the U.S. state of Illinois and the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.

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Wyoming Seminary

Wyoming Seminary, founded in 1844, is a Methodist college preparatory school located in the Wyoming Valley of Northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet.

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Yale University Library

The Yale University Library is the library system of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yale University Press

Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.

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Yiddish

Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish/idish, "Jewish",; in older sources ייִדיש-טײַטש Yidish-Taitsh, Judaeo-German) is the historical language of the Ashkenazi Jews.

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Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa (born April 29, 1941) is an American poet who teaches at New York University and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

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Zbigniew Herbert

Zbigniew Herbert (29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist.

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Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award

The Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award (Polish: Międzynarodowa Nagroda Literacka im. Zbigniewa Herberta) is a Polish international literature prize established in 2013 in Warsaw and named after a Polish poet, essayist, and moralist Zbigniew Herbert (1924-1998).

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1952 in poetry

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1954 in poetry

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1956 in poetry

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1957 in literature

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 1957.

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1957 in poetry

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1958 in literature

This article is a summary of the literary events and publications of 1958.

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1959 in poetry

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1960 in poetry

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1961 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1961.

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1961 in poetry

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1962 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1962.

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1962 in poetry

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1963 in poetry

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1964 in literature

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1966 in poetry

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1969 in poetry

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1970 in poetry

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1971 in poetry

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1973 in poetry

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1977 in poetry

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1978 in poetry

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1979 in poetry

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1981 in poetry

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1982 in poetry

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1983 in poetry

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1987 in poetry

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1988 in poetry

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1989 in poetry

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1992 in literature

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1993 in poetry

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1994 in poetry

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1998 in poetry

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2004 in poetry

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2005 in literature

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2008 in poetry

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2009 in poetry

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2010 in poetry

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2013 in poetry

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2014 in poetry

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2016 in poetry

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Merwin

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