Mary Oliver

The ten cringiest things in poetry.

 
By Jessie Gaynor  April 8, 2024
The Hub

Don’t take career advice from Bukowski, upgrade your hustle with these authors instead.

By James Folta  March 28, 2024
Happy Pride

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
The Hub

9 books perfectly summed up with lyrics from Taylor Swift’s Red.

By Snigdha Koirala  November 12, 2021
The Hub

How notoriously private poet Mary Oliver once saved a depressed high school student’s life.

By Vanessa Willoughby  September 10, 2021
Pain

Rachel Yoder on Navigating Chronic Pain Through Storytelling

By Rachel Yoder  July 20, 2021
Craft

On Finding a Little Spark When Your Writing’s Lost Its Heat

By Ron Hogan  June 9, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Jacqueline Novogratz on the Need for Moral Imagination

By The Quarantine Tapes  March 31, 2021
Death

When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver

By Nina Solis  February 18, 2021
Nature

In the Face of Implacable Landscapes, Natural and Viral

By Steve Edwards  April 9, 2020
In Memoriam

Notable Literary Deaths in 2019

By Emily Temple  December 20, 2019
In Memoriam

On Brian Doyle’s Mystical, Genre-Exploding Work

By David James Duncan  December 3, 2019
A Phone Call From Paul

John Waters on Working for Mary Oliver in Her Bookstore

By Literary Hub  July 18, 2019
Poets

Why Do We Ignore the Suffering in the Poems of Mary Oliver and Elizabeth Bishop?

By Liza Wieland  June 28, 2019
Conversations

Director Peter Hedges on Taking the Page to the Screen

By But That's Another Story  February 4, 2019
Close Reading

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

By Jeanna Kadlec  January 23, 2019
Feature

How Mary Oliver Helped Me to Breathe Again

By Brandon Taylor  January 18, 2019
In Memoriam

Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83

By Corinne Segal  January 17, 2019
Feature

The Books That Kept Me From Falling Apart in County Jail

By Leslie Schwartz  July 17, 2018
Poets

What is the Right Poetry Collection for You?

By Emily Temple  May 21, 2018
Feature

The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside

By Ben Shattuck  May 14, 2018
Advice

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

By Emily Temple  January 22, 2018
News

5 Books Making News This Week: “Best of” Season Edition

By Jane Ciabattari  December 5, 2017
What to Read

15 Books You Should Read This October

By Literary Hub  October 3, 2017
Personal Essay

Can Your Best Friends Be Books?

By Eve Fairbanks  August 29, 2017
What to Read

Five Books Making News This Week: Madness, Monkeys, and Fairytales

By Jane Ciabattari  October 25, 2016
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