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The threshold is upon us. The end of our time with Helene Atwan as our director is coming up. We’re all wishing her the happiest retirement! It has been an amazing twenty-six years, and Beacon won’t be the same without her. So many amazing authors she brought into the fold! So many amazing books—including her…
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1. Under a sexual sky you coughed swords
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Partly like the sun and partly like the air, the earth—just like a body if it had no bones. As if by veins it is held together so it does not crumble.
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By Helene Atwan. In 2003, having miraculously convinced Mary Oliver and her tough-minded agent and partner, Molly Malone Cook, to return to Beacon as a publishing home, Mary, Molly and I hit something of a brick wall. Our shared vision was to publish a second volume of New and Selected Poems (Beacon had published the first…
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A new video illustrates Mary Oliver’s dark and beautiful poem “Night and the River,” first published in ‘Red Bird’ and later recorded by Mary Oliver for the CD ‘Many Miles: Mary Oliver Reads Mary Oliver.’
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In honor of Poetry Month, here's a collection of poetry you can watch and hear in the poet's own voice. Add your favorites in the comments! Mary Oliver reads "The Summer Day" Mary Oliver reading "Wild Geese" and other poems Sonia Sanchez reads "10 Haiku for Max Roach" (from Morning Haiku) Craig Teicher…
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