Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver died on Thursday at her home in Florida. The 83-year-old writer left behind more than 20 volumes of poems and a legion of bereft fans that include Laura Bush, ...

“Maybe our world will grow kinder eventually. Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.” – from “Franz Marc’s Blue Horses,” Devotions by Mary Oliver ...

When news of Mary Oliver’s death came last week, those lines from her poem “Wild Geese” rose out of my memory like startled birds, and they’ve been fluttering around my brain ever since. Oliver was a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On November 8, 2005, people lined up at Town Hall Seattle to hear a rare reading by poet Mary Oliver. It was a sold-out crowd, exuberant when Oliver would announce favorites from the stage. We dug ...

These four come immediately to mind. But another favorite of the Jesuits, I have learned, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Mary Oliver, 80 this year, who is of no declared religion, but whose poems are ...

Photo by Rachel Giese Brown. Via. Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver rolled into Southern California last night to rock UCLA’s Royce Hall. At 75, she’s only slightly older than Madonna and has a ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Reporting from New York — Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work focused on spirituality, nature and New England, died of cancer on Thursday in Florida, NPR reports. She was 83.

When news of Mary Oliver’s death came Thursday, those lines from her poem “Wild Geese” rose out of my memory like startled birds, and they’ve been fluttering around my brain ever since. Oliver was a ...