W.S. Merwin has been named Poet Laureate.
"I do like a very quiet life,” Mr. Merwin said by telephone after learning of his appointment. “I can’t keep popping back and forth between here and Washington.” He said he does relish “being part of something much more public and talking too much,” however, and the job of the nation’s premier poet will enable him to do both."
You can learn more about him from his Poets.org page and his Poetry Foundation biography.