Mary Oliver

Sep 5, 2024 | spiritualityandpractice.com | Mary Oliver

What is the greatest gift? What is the greatest gift? Could it be the world itself — the oceans, the meadowlark, the patience of the trees in the wind? Could it be love, with its sweet clamor of passion? Something else — something else entirely holds me in thrall. That you have a life that I wonder about more than I wonder about my own. That you have a life — courteous, intelligent — that I wonder about more than I wonder about my own.

Sep 4, 2024 | pittnews.com | Emma Hannan |Mary Oliver |David Sheff |Evin Verbrugge

Now that the semester has officially begun, we students don’t have as much time for hobbies as we did over the summer — but that doesn’t mean we have to abandon those hobbies entirely. I love to read in my spare time, and I had much more free time to read over the past four months. I didn’t finish every single book I started, but of the seven that I did complete, there were four that stuck out to me.

Jun 22, 2024 | financialserviceslife.com | Sylvia Plath |Walt Whitman |Mary Oliver |Robert Browning

Poetry is a unique medium open to interpretation that allows people to bring their own insights and experiences to bear on the poem. The best poets take advantage of this by creating work that will resonate with different people for different reasons. They tackle issues of life, death, love, grief and more to connect personally with the reader.

Jun 11, 2024 | dailyjournal.net | Mary Oliver

FRANKLIN, IN. Dorothy Tegeler was an intelligent, tough, generous, and fiercely loving woman, who was always involved in her community, her church, and her family, whether they be near or far. Dorothy (Kenninger) Tegeler of Franklin, IN passed in her sleep at 5:51PM on June 7, 2024 at the age of 97. She is survived by her brother Edward Kenninger (Donna) of Greenwood, IN, three daughters Karen L. Gebhard (Charles) of Beavercreek, OH, Sharon R. Helmer (Wayne, P.H.D.) of Russellville, AR and Christi T.

May 23, 2024 | kwbu.org | Heather White |Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver is an American Poet who won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Devotions is a collection of more than two hundred poems, selected and arranged by the poet herself. Oliver has included poems from all stages of her impressive and influential fifty-year career, spanning from nineteen sixty-three to two thousand fifteen. I would recommend this poetry collection to poetry lovers, obviously, but also to those who want to read poetry and don’t know where to start.