Here is what her poems tell us about life. ANGEL VALENTIN / NYT FILE — Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, with her dog, Ricky, at her home in Hobe Sound, Fla., Sept. 26, 2013.

This is a collection of Mary Oliver’s poems, which she arranged shortly before her death in 2019. Mary Oliver was an American poet who wrote mainly about the wonders of the natural world.

Mary Oliver's Felicity (Penguin Press, $24.95), forthcoming next month, is a breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human ...

Her final book, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver, was selected by Oprah's Book Club as one of Oprah's "Books That Help Me Through." Bush has had a passion for poetry from a young age.

Oliver was a poet, maybe the best known and most quoted living poet of our time until she died Thursday, at home in Florida, at the age of 83. Even if you don’t read poetry, you may have ...

When the poet Mary Oliver died last week at the age of 83, my social media feeds blossomed into a field of tributes. I was a bit surprised, especially by the posts from some academic poets ...

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 ...

Oliver wasn't always appreciated by critics, but she was still one of the country's most popular poets. In 2012, she told NPR, "Poetry, to be understood, must be clear." ...

She was 83. Oliver, one of the country’s most popular poets, was born in Ohio in 1935. She published her first collection, “No Voyage and Other Poems,” in 1963.