the poetry foundation’s poetry off the shelf podcast has a couple thanksgiving day poems for you, “gift” by u.s. poet laureate w. s. merwin (excellently read by alfred molina) and “holidays” by dara weir.

happy turkey day, ya’all.

82-year-old Merwin lives in Hawaii, but now he'll be making trips to D.C.

I know I just posted, but I wanted to share this news with everyone. W.S. Merwin is probably in my top ten list of favorite poets, so to see that he’s going to be our new poet laureate is pretty exciting.

A few links for your perusal enjoyment:

• The New York Times Article that announces the news and includes Merwin’s bio and a couple of his poems,
• Merwin’s newest book, The Shadow of Sirius, is certainly one to check out, and finally
• Merwin’s page on Poets.org where you can hear him read a couple of his poems and you can read several more yourself.

Enjoy!