Category: Mary Oliver

  • In an essay included in the second audio collection of her work, Mary Oliver reminisces about voices lost to time.

  • Several weeks ago, in the midst of National Poetry Month, I made an impulsive decision to drive out from Boston to Syracuse, New York, for a poetry reading. Mary Oliver was scheduled to fly from Logan for that reading, but I thought if I offered to intercept her on the connection from Provincetown and drive,…

  • Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was described by the New York Times as “far and away, this country’s best-selling poet.” Her poetry collections include Swan;  Blue Iris; Why I Wake Early; Thirst; New and Selected Poems, Volume One; and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. Her prose includes Our World, which is a collection of photographs by Molly Malone…