Making the World a Better Place, One Writer at a Time
A TFP conversation with Christopher Merrill—poet, journalist, director of the world-renowned International Writing Program, and author, most recently, of 'Flares,' the dazzling remnants of his travels
By Michael Judge
The first time I met Christopher Merrill, the award-winning author, translator and poet whom W.S. Merwin rightly praised as “one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinarily rich generation,” he was doing, perhaps, what he do…
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