Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83

Mary Oliver, who won the National Book Award (1992, New and Selected Poems) and Pulitzer Prize (1984, American Primitive) for her poems which celebrated the natural world, spirituality, and self, has died of lymphoma at 83 at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida. Wrote NPR: ‘Oliver got a lot of her ideas for poems during … Continue reading Poet Mary Oliver Dies at 83