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, and so on.

On November 8, 2005, people lined up at Town Hall Seattle to hear a rare reading by poet Mary Oliver. It was a sold-out crowd, exuberant when Oliver would announce favorites from the stage. We dug ...

This collection brings together poetry from eight of Oliver's previously published books and 30 new poems. In all of her work, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive , Oliver, ``full ...

In “The Storm (Bear),” poet Mary Oliver catches the essence of a dog in winter, who “spins/ until the the white snow is written upon/ in large exuberant letters,/ a long sentence, expressing/ the ...

Photo by Rachel Giese Brown. Via. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver rolled into Southern California last night to rock UCLA’s Royce Hall. At 75, she’s only slightly older than Madonna and has a ...

“Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.” – from “Franz Marc’s Blue Horses,” Devotions by Mary Oliver ...