Shortly after I filed my story about Mary Oliver's lecture last night, the copy editors told me they needed to cut it, because the space allotted for the article had abruptly shrunk. So the cuts ...

Mary Oliver noticed, and out of that noticing grew a commitment to the details that populate life. There are many things to be admired about the way Oliver committed her observations to the page. Her ...

As I also noted, “Devotions,” at 400 pages, was a testament to the scale of Oliver’s achievement. Her poems, appearing in feather-light collections over the years, might have tricked fans ...

The late Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet who passed away earlier this year at the age of 83, was an artist who used her words to paint pictures of the natural world. Her verses ...

Mary Oliver. Beacon Press: 96 pp., $23 “What can I say that I have not said before?” the poet Mary Oliver wonders on page 1 of this, her 20th collection.

Jesus was 12 when he got lost in the temple; after Mary and Joseph found him we don't hear anything until he's 30. Think about it: Jesus was lost and caught praying and got grounded by the Mother ...

I discovered Mary Oliver’s brilliance in a yoga class more than 15 years ago when a teacher read aloud her famous poem Wild Geese. You do not have to be good, the first line opens. You do not ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection, has died. She was 83.

Mary Oliver reads 'Some Things, Say The Wise Ones' at Town Hall Seattle on November 8, 2005. Some things, say the wise ones who know everything, are not living.

The first thing one notices about Devotions, a survey of Mary Oliver’s poems from more than five decades, is how big the book is – unusually so.At more than 400 pages, it registers palpably on ...