Poet Mary Oliver received an honorary degree at Marquette University at 4 p.m. this afternoon and proceeded to give a 50-minute poetry reading, a question-and-answer session and a book signing. The 77 ...

Finals season is rolling around. It is around this time every year that, in the whirlwind of study sessions, exams, and ...

FILE - In this Nov. 18, 1992 file photo, Mary Oliver appears at the National Book Awards in New York where she received the poetry award for her book "New and Selected Poems." Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The day Mary Oliver died, I read a piece in The Atlantic about existential therapy. “It was a bit ...

The poet Mary Oliver died on Jan. 17 at age 83. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize in poetry and the National Book Award, Oliver will be remembered as one of the most celebrated and beloved American poets. In ...

In “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver,” Oliver offers a collection of almost all her best poems throughout the year. With poems dating back to 1963, it includes some of my all-time ...

A memorable evening in Santa Barbara. So. The poet Mary Oliver was coming to town—or to the local university, rather—and the head of their arts and lectures series, Roman Baratiak, called me up and ...

Reporting from New York — Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work focused on spirituality, nature and New England, died of cancer on Thursday in Florida, NPR reports. She was 83.