Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winning Poet
“A Permanent Enrichment”: An Interview with Mary Oliver
Provincetown is blessed with two linked national treasures: the Provincelands and their best interpreter, the poet Mary Oliver. Oliver and Provincetown are intertwined to an unusual degree—the landscape, plants, animals, and people here have long been inspiration for her, and are the subjects of many of her best-known works. She’s lived here for forty years, becoming a fixture of the community long before she became so well-known. But Provincetown has a curious way of making national figures out of friendly neighbors, and sometimes vice versa.
Read more of “A Permanent Enrichment”: An Interview with Mary Oliver, by Oona Patrick, Provincetown Arts Magazine, July 2009 (PDF).
Praise
“Mary Oliver’s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations.”
—Stanley Kunitz