Author
Sonnet Coggins
Sonnet is The Merwin Conservancy's Executive Director. After completing a Masters degree in Education at the University of Virginia, Sonnet moved to France, then later completed a Master of Arts in French Language and Literatures, with a focus on cultural history and interpretation of historic sites. She worked with the Denver Art Museum, then the Williams College Museum of Art, where she co-curated The Field is the World: Williams, Hawai‘i, and Material Histories in the Making. Sonnet has been with the Conservancy since 2018.
Why Palms?

Stepping Toward Our Vision on W.S. Merwin’s Birthday

The Current of Convictions

Restoring the Roof

Our Loulu Project

On Joy

The Perennial Power of Poetry

Wonder, Attention, and Daily Practice

A Place Born of Choosing Another Way

A Thirty-four Year-Old Idea Takes Root At Last

Looking Plainly at What Breaks Our Hearts

Finding Steadiness as Maui Smolders

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