Mary Oliver
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winning Poet
Mary Oliver on the Writer’s Almanac
Mary Oliver’s poems are favorites of Garrison Keillor. Did you know that you can search his Writer’s Almanac website by poem or poet? Here is a list of the many times Keillor has featured Mary Oliver’s poems, complete with links to the shows.
Photographs
 – Mary Oliver looks out at her beloved Blackwater Pond. From At Blackwater Pond (Audio, Beacon Press, 2006). |
Praise
“Poems like ‘Some Questions You Might Ask,’ The Hermit Crab,’ ‘Wings,’ ‘Turtle,’ Roses, Late Summer’ take my breath away. What I feel is an immense gratitude that they are written, and that I can read them over and over. I think of Oliver as a fierce, uncompromising lyricist, a loyalist of the marshes. Hers is a voice we desperately need.”
—Maxine Kumin