Mary Oliver is renowned and beloved for her evocative and precise rendering of the natural world, offering gorgeous as well as disturbing and brutal images.Her many books-27 at present count-are ...

Oliver was born in Ohio, so I like to claim her as a fellow Ohio poet. She lived in Provincetown, Mass., from the 1960s until the death of her partner, Molly Malone Cook, in 2005.

Oliver offered a seriousness not tied to a religious orthodoxy, a way to find the numinous through poetry and the outdoors, to avoid dwelling on crowds, modernity, the economy, and their loud demands.

Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work, with its plain language and minute attention to the natural world, drew a wide following while dividing critics, died on Thursday at her home ...

“Mary Oliver is saving my life,” Paul Chowder, the title character of Nicholson Baker’s novel “The Anthologist,” scrawls in the margins of Oliver’s “New and Selected Poems, Volume ...

Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning poet, passed away on Jan. 17 at age 83, leaving behind a powerful body of work, and an even more inspiring legacy.

"A Poetry Handbook" is a 1994 book by Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning poet. The book describes and gives examples of the many elements that go into writing great poems.

Mary Oliver, the award-winning and beloved author of more than 15 poetry and essay collections, passed away on Thursday at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida, after a bout with cancer.

Last month, the Mary Oliver estate launched a merch store — now, for just $35, you can wear a cropped tee that reminds you to give in to joy. On the site, Oliver’s poetry is gentle, pastel ...