Mary Oliver, arguably America’s most beloved ... my social media feeds filled with poems, quotes, links to Oliver’s work and personal stories. What struck me was how many people were moved ...

With meditations on the distractions of culture and the consolations of art and nature, **Mary Oliver’**s personable new collection, Blue Horses (Penguin), evokes the challenges of belonging to ...

Mary Oliver and her dog Ricky, who's not camera-shy. (Photo by Anne Taylor) It’s easy to write bad poetry about dogs. God is dog spelled backwards, pup spelled backwards is still pup ...

Few poets achieved that ambition more evidently, or more obviously, than Mary Oliver, who died, in Florida, on Thursday, at eighty-three. Though she grew up in Ohio and spent her last years in ...

From our February 1994 issue, here’s a bit of Mary Oliver’s “Mockingbirds”: This morning two mockingbirds in the green field were spinning and tossing the white ribbons of their songs into ...