Posts Tagged: Mary Oliver

FreeVerse: “Small Bodies” by Mary Oliver

So often, I think about participating in FreeVerse, a weekly meme hosted by Cara at Ooh…Books! on Wednesdays. And so often, Wednesday sneaks up on me and I think, “Darn it, it’s already Wednesday again and I don’t have a poem to post for FreeVerse!” Today, I brought one of my Mary Oliver books to

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Book review of Mary Oliver’s Evidence for LibraryThing

(Cross-posting a LibraryThing review. Crossing my fingers that I’ve smoothed out my formatting issues.) I am very grateful to Beacon Press and LibraryThing for the opportunity to review Mary Oliver’s latest book of poetry, Evidence, through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. I’ve been reading Oliver’s poetry for the past few years, and have come to admire

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