Word: merwin
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...spring Morris Gray Lecturer will be W.S. Merwin, another writer who has composed both prose and poetry...
...Merwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in both 1971 and 2009. He also won the Tanning Prize, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets...
...Although she is being touted as an outsider in comparison to more high-profile choices of the past, such as W.S. Merwin and Robert Pinsky, she is in fact a well-established poet. It took 10 years for her to get her poems published in "good literary magazines," she recalls, but she has since won nearly every prestigious poetry award, including a Guggenheim fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, which carries a $100,000 purse, both in 2004. She has kept herself at a remove from the poetry community and has happily taught remedial English at the College...
...inception not to "open its pages to those whose only merits lie in their anguish, their fervor, and their experimentation," is not the biggest nor the most prestigious of the literary-periodical set, but it has nurtured the early careers of such now familiar names as W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. And it has the distinction of having chosen a title that doesn't sound nearly as quaint as those of the other new magazines Time wrote about that week: Tiger's Eye, Masses & Mainstream, Instead and even that bible of the Beat Generation, Neurotica...
...before ever serving a day on the job. American University granted its former president, Benjamin Ladner, a severance payment in the range of $1 million in 2005—even though auditors accused Ladner of financial improprieties. The former president of Florida Gulf Coast University, William C. Merwin, garnered an $811,000 package after he resigned in January following an extramarital affair with a female professor.Harvard spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment on the tax returns.“We don’t discuss compensation other than what we report in the tax filings...