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 ...

[poetry] really invokes intersection and dreaming and a greater capacity for thought. Perhaps that is the reason I love Mary so much." When it comes to Oliver's work, Bush considers herself a fan ...

""I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place"" writes Mary Oliver, ""Yet each has its own force."" Her Long Life: Essays and Other Writings intersperses a few verses among prose ...

Mary Oliver is renowned and beloved for her evocative ... while retaining a practical awareness of the world as one of predators and prey.” In poems that are rarely populated by humans, Oliver leads ...

Distinguished poet Mary Oliver will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, in the Wright Hall Auditorium. Sponsored by the Poetry Center at Smith College with generous support from the ...