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 ...

""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 ...

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of ...

American poet Mary Oliver gained many fans from her thought-provoking reflections on both life and nature. Some loathe poetry, while others love it. For us, though, poems provide wisdom ...

On a mild sunny morning in June, nearly 120 people gathered at Cape Cod National Seashore for the unveiling of the first table, overlaid with a poem by Mary Oliver, the soulful poet and essayist who ...

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

Favorite poem: “Old Glory” These are just a few books to get you started! If you like these suggestions, check out the works of Morgan Parker, Mary Oliver, D.A. Powell, and Rudy Francisco as well.