Oliver, the hugely popular poet, died Thursday. Readers turned to her work to find comfort. Here’s a selection of some of her best-known writing on loss and mourning.

What Mary Oliver can teach us about dealing with climate grief One of Oliver’s main challenges to us was to just get outside.

Spanning more than 50 years and featuring more than 200 poems, the collection shows Oliver, in the early years, turning away from grief and finding in nature a "vast, incredible gift." ...

Mary Oliver’s gift was her ability to marvel at the world with an unsentimental acceptance that it (and we) are temporary.

“Listen,” writes Mary Oliver, urging the reader to put aside questions and doubts as she describes terns wheeling over ocean waves, “maybe such devotion, in which one holds the world/ in the ...

As an "enormous Mary Oliver fan," Sophia Bush is celebrating National Poetry Month by narrating the new audiobook Wild and Precious: A Celebration of Mary Oliver Lizzie Hyman is a Writer-Reporter ...

Last month, the Mary Oliver estate launched a merch store — now, for just $35, you can wear a cropped tee that reminds you to give in to joy. On the site, Oliver’s poetry is gentle, pastel ...

Those who knew Mary Oliver in Provincetown used to tell a story. “They say if Mary is taking a walk, and she begins to walk slower and slower, and finally she’s standing still scribbling, you ...

Journalist Ramita Navai talks to psychology professor Mary-Frances O'Connor about grief.

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” -Mary Oliver Source: Freeimages The quiet, plain-spoken poet Mary Oliver died ...