2009: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Shadow of Sirius (published in 2008) 2010: Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement 2010: United States Poet Laureate 2013: Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award Other accolades Merwin's home town honored him in 2006 by renaming a local street near his childhood home W. S. Merwin Way. Bibliography Other sources The Union City Reporter March 12, 2006. References Further reading Armenti, Peter. W. S. Merwin: Online Resources, Library of Congress, accessed November 25, 2010. W. S. Merwin at the Steven Barclay Agency, accessed November 25, 2010. Norton, Ingrid. "Second Glance: Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one" Open Letters Monthly, accessed November 25, 2010. Kubota, Gary T. "Catching Up With Maui's Most Famous Poet: At Home and at Peace In a Tropical Landscape, W. S. Merwin Enriches the Literature of Nature" , Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 21, 2001 W. S. Merwin – Online Poems, Modern American Poetry, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, accessed November 25, 2010. Lerner, Ben. "The Emptiness at the End" Jacket magazine, October 2005 External links The Merwin Conservancy W. S. Merwin at Poets.org Profile and poems of W. S. Merwin, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation "Two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry". Academy of Achievement, July 3, 2008 W.S. Merwin: To Plant a Tree PBS Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Letters to W.S. (William Stanley) and Dido Merwin, 1958–1969 1927 births 2019 deaths American pacifists American Poets Laureate American Presbyterians Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters National Book Award winners The New Yorker people People from Union City, New Jersey Writers from Scranton, Pennsylvania Princeton University alumni Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath laureates Translators of Dante Alighieri Translators to English Poets from Hawaii Poets from New Jersey Writers from New York City Bollingen Prize recipients American male poets Yale Younger Poets winners Wyoming Seminary alumni