Brooklines 2009 1st Light Festival schedule Nov 21, 2009
6-7 p.m. Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet; tickets at Booksmith. 1302 Beacon St.. (Brookline TAB, MA)
A life's journey, legacy Nov 10, 2009
Guests for a dream dinner party: Walt Whitman, Mary Oliver, Carol Bly and George Carlin. Dream occupation: To be Shirley MacLaine, because of her spirit and ability to dance, sing and act, as well as her travel to such places as Tibet. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Qualifying Ancestors for Witch Soci... Oct 10, 2009
M-O: Mrs. Richard Manship, Widow Mercy Marshfield, Mary (Osgood) Marston, Susanna (North) Martin, Margaret Mattson, William Meaker, Sarah Merrick, Katherine Messenger, Goodwife Miller, Joan Mitchell, Phyllis Money, Sarah Morey/Morrell, Eleanor Morris, Elizabeth Morse, Mrs. Christopher Neal, Rebecca (Towne) Nurse, Mary Oliver, Sarah (Warren) Prince Osborne and Mary (Clement/s) Osgood. P: Elizabeth (Carington) Paine, Catherine Palmer, Alice Parker, Mary (Ayer) Parker, Sarah Parker, Hugh Parsons,... (Suite101.com)
Nicholson Baker's 'Anthologist' to be featured at RiverRun Sep 21, 2009
"When Baker reads at RiverRun on Thursday, he'll be returning to the place where he bought his first book of Mary Oliver poetry, and most likely charm you during his reading.But what does he look for when attending a book reading?"I want to hear the tone of voice of a writer. I want them to them explain how they came to write the thing they're reading from, and I like that nervous expectant moment when the poor guy is up there flustered and sweating and suffering and you get to sit in the chair... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
WHITTAKER: Wishing for wisdom for young adults Aug 23, 2009
There is an urgency to this question that the poet Mary Oliver captured in these words. Tell me, what else should I have done. (Holliston Tab, MA)
Silliman considers the business of the MFA Aug 13, 2009
As to Greatness, keep in mind that everyone comes to poetry for a different reason--as one poet once wisely told me, some people want nothing more than to hear/see their own world reflected back at them in beautiful language--and so once a writer crosses the line of competence in craft (in making evaluations of other writers, I mean) you are, unfortunately, going to have people who call Sharon Olds Great, and Mary Oliver Great, and Billy Collins Great. But the odd thing, I think, is that it is... (Harper's Magazine)
Titcom’s Bookshop in East Sandwich celebrates 40th anniversary Aug 2, 2009
Among the 40 authors lined up for visits through the fall are Jeanette Walls, Mary Oliver, and Wally Lamb. We managed to survive by changing with the times, said Nancy Titcomb. (Boston Globe)
COLUMN: Joys of intergenerational community May 29, 2009
During the service, each senior will respond to the question the poet Mary Oliver poses at the end of her poem The Summer Day. She asks, What will you do with your one wild and precious life. (Easton Journal, MA)
Spring makes bike ride a lot longer Apr 30, 2009
Which I suppose is a long way of saying that spring is here -- and I am the lucky person who is in it, as poet Mary Oliver would say. Heather Lende lives and writes in Haines. (Anchorage Daily News)
San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers April 19 / Apr 20, 2009
EVIDENCE, Mary Oliver (Beacon Press; 88 pages; $23): The latest collection of poems from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize. 9. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Mel's ode to the streets Apr 19, 2009
"Evidence," by Mary Oliver (Beacon). "Shadows Still Remain," by Peter de Jonge (Harper). (Boston Globe)
Mary Oliver's House of Light Apr 18, 2009
Mary Oliver inhabits as intimately as possible what lies outside her door, creating poems that are ekphrastic odes to the natural order. House of Light, an early collection by Mary Oliver, paints Whitmanesque sketches empowered with the rhetorical and the metaphorical ... Mary Oliver, when she is accused of creative imperfection, is cast as an asocial denizen of the human world. (Suite101.com)
Bregman: Ticket to freedom is a line on your tax form Apr 16, 2009
"Tell me," writes Mary Oliver in her poem, , "what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" That's the real question of April 15 ... So you are free to answer Mary Oliver's question without constraint. (CNN -- US)
Hilltop service shines in 'Blessing of the Sun' Apr 9, 2009
They said traditional Jewish prayers and recited the poem "The Sun" by Mary Oliver, which includes these words. "do you think there is anywhere, in any language,a word billowing enoughfor the pleasurethat fills you,as the sunreaches out,as it warms you . . .". (Boston Globe)
The pleasure principle Mar 16, 2009
"In our culture, admitting our bodies matter is almost an admission of failure," said Daedone, 41, who can quote the poet Mary Oliver and speak wryly on the intricacies of women's anatomy with equal aplomb. "I don't think women will really experience freedom until they own their sexuality.". (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
