However, I don't have any background in poetry. So, I figured I'd learn from one of the masters: Mary Oliver, who won a Pulitzer and National Book Award for her poetry. I picked up her 1994 book ...

This is a collection of Mary Oliver’s poems, which she arranged shortly before her death in 2019. Mary Oliver was an American poet who wrote mainly about the wonders of the natural world.

In Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Penguin), one of our most ... as when she describes watching her father beat her mother every Saturday night. That experience, which taught a ...

That line was written by Mary Oliver, a poet whose work I have loved ... In a poem called “Ice” (New and Selected Poems, Volume One) Oliver writes about her father in old age, how he “spent his last ...

Mary Oliver taught me how to live. At the suggestion of our group leader, I bought a couple of Ms. Oliver’s books at the monastery’s little bookstore. I read her poems about nature — and oh ...

As an "enormous Mary Oliver fan," Sophia Bush is celebrating National Poetry Month by narrating the new audiobook Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter ...

I was a bit surprised, especially by the posts from some academic poets, because Mary Oliver’s work is simple (at first glance), accessible and bestselling, the antithesis of much poetry written ...

Mary Oliver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning ... Her most recent collection is entitled A Thousand Mornings. In one poem, "I Happen to Be Standing," Oliver describes herself as witnessing all these ...

Today marks the end of National Poetry Month, so I’ll leave you with some verse from one of my favorite poets. From our February 1994 issue, here’s a bit of Mary Oliver’s “Mockingbirds ...

Mary Oliver's Felicity (Penguin Press, $24.95), forthcoming next month, is a breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human ...

Named for Mary Oliver's poem of the same name ... a girl sold by her white slaver father. "The Book of (More) Delights," by Ross Gay (out Sept. 19). So much of being a bookseller is finding ...