Mary Oliver

Photo of Mary Oliver found several places on the web, including wisdomportal.com.  

Poems for consideration

"The Black Snake"

"August"

"Hawk"

No Voyage and Other Poems  1963
The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems 1972
The Night Traveler 1978
Twelve Moons 1978
Sleeping in the Forest 1979
American Primitive 1983
Dream Work 1986
Provincetown 1987
House of Light 1990
New and Selected Poems 1992
White Pine 1994
Blue Pastures 1995
West Wind 1997
Winter Hours 1999
The Leaf and the Cloud 2000
What Do We Know 2002
Blue Iris 2004
Why I Wake Early 2004

Blue Iris: Poems and Essays  2004

Oliver on the Web

poem texts (some may require you to scroll down; remember formatting of online texts often varies from the original presentation)

• "After Arguing Against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent" site 1 
• "An Afternoon in the Stacks" site 1 
• "At Blackwater Pond" site  2 3 (with music) 
• "At Great Pond" site 1 2 
• "At the Lake" site 1 (with music)
• "August" site 1 
• "Aunt Leaf" site 1 
• "Beyond the Snow Belt" site 1 
• "Black Oaks" site 1 
• "The Black Snake" site 1 (with music) 2  3 
• "Blossom" site 1 
• "Bone" site 1 (with music)
• "The Book of Time" site 1 (excerpt with music)
• "Breakage" site 1 (with music) 
• "The Buddha's Last Instruction" site 1 2 3 (with music) 
• "Catbird" site 1 2 (with music)
• "The Chance to Love Everything" site 1 2 3 
• "Clapp's Pond" site 1 
• "Climbing the Chagrin River" site 1 2 
• "Clouds" site 1 (with music)
• "Cold Poem" site 1 
• "Daisies" site 1 2 (with music)
• "The Deer" site 1 (with music)
• "Dogfish" site 1 
• "The Dovekie" site 1 (with music) 
• "A Dream of Trees" site 1 
• "The Egret" site 1 
• "Egrets" site 1 2 
• "The Esquimos Have No Word for 'War'" site 1 (with music)
• "Fall Song" site 1 2 (with music) 
• "The Family" site 1 
• "The Fish" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Five A.M. in the Pinewoods" site 1 2 (with music) 
• "Flare" site 1 2 (excerpt with music)
• "Foxes in Winter" site  
• "Gannets" site 1 
• "Gratitude" site 1 (with music)
• "Happiness" site 1 
• "Have Your Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?" site 1 2 3 (with music)
• "Hawk" site 1 
• "Heron Rises from the Dark, Summer Pond" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Honey at the Table" site 1 
• "How Everything Adores Being Alive" site 1 (with music)
• "Hummingbird Pauses at the Trumpet Vine" site 1 
• "The Humpbacks" site 1
• "In Blackwater Woods" site 1 2 (with music)
• "The Journey" site 1 2 3 4 5 (with music) 6 
• "The Kingfisher" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Knife" site 1 
• "The Kookaburras" site 1
• "The Lark" site 1 2 3 (with music) 
• "Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me" site 1 2 3 (with music)
• "The Leaf and the Cloud" site 1 (excerpt with music)
• "A Letter from Home" site 1 
• "Lightning" site 1 
• "Lilies" site 1 
• "The Lily" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Little Owl Who Lives in the Orchard" site 1 
• "Little Summer Poem Touching the Subject of Faith" site 1 2 3 (with music)
• "Logos" site 1 (with music) 
• "Long Afternoon at the Edge of Little Sister Pond" site 1 (with music)
• "Look and See" site 1 (with music) 
• "Marengo" site 1 
• "Matins" site 1 (with music)
• "A Meeting" site 1 
• "Mindful" site 1 2 3 (with music)
• "Moccasin Flowers" site 1 2 
• "Mockingbirds" site 1 2 3 4 (with music)
• "Moles" site 1 2 
• "Morning Glories" site 1 
• "Morning Poem" site 2 3 (with music)
• "The Moths" site 1 
• "Music" site 1 
• "Mushrooms" site 1 
• "Next Time" site 1 
• "On Winter's Margin" site 1 
• "One" site 1 2 (with music)
• "One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day" site 1 (with music)
• "One or Two Things" site 1 (excerpt with music)
• "Peonies" site  2 3 4 (with music)
• "Picking Blueberries, Austerlitz, New York, 1957" site 1 
• "Poem" site 1 2 
• "The Ponds" site 1 2 (with music) 3 
• "Poppies" site 1 2 
• "The Rapture" site 1 
• "The Return, part 6" site 1 (with music)
• "Sand Dabs, Five" site 1 
• "Singapore" site 1 (with music)
• "Sleeping in the Forest" site 1 3 4 (with music) 5 
• "Snow Geese" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Snowy Night" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Some Things the World Gave" site 1 
• "Song of the Builders" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Spring" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Stanley Kunitz" site 1 
• "Starfish" site 1 (with music) 
• "Starlings in Winter" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Such Singing in the Wild Branches" site 1 2 (with music) 
• "The Summer Day" site 1 2 3 (with music) 4 
• "The Sun" site 1 2 3 (with music) 4 
• "Sunrise" site 1 2 3 (with music)
• "The Swan" site 1 2 3 (with music) 4 
• "That Sweet Flute John Clare" site 1 2 
• "This World" site 1 (with music) 
• "Toward the Space Age" site 1 
• "The Truro Bear" site 1 
• "Turtle" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Two Kinds of Deliverance" site 1 
• "A Visitor" site  2 3 
• "Vultures" site 1 
• "Walking to Oak-Head Pond [. . .]" site 1 2 (with music)
• "West Wind #2" site 1 (with music) 
• "When Death Comes" site 1 2 3 4 5 (with music) 
• "Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?" site 1 (with music)
• "White Night" site 1 
• "White Owl Flies into and out of the Field" site 1 (with music) 
• "Why I Wake Early" site 1 2 (with music)
• "Wild Geese" site 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 (with music) 10 
• "Yes! No!" site 1 2 3 (with music) 

Audio only

"Owls" with commentary

"Kukkaburras" read by Ian Oeschger

"Wild Geese" read by Rachel Oeschger

A 30+-minute reading (4 Aug 2001) comprised of: "The Fish," "Wild Geese," "The Swan," "The Word," "Seven White Butterflies," "One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day," "In Pogety[?], Georgia," "The Dog Has Run Off Again," "A Leaf and a Cloud: From the Book of Time," "The Sun," and "I Found a Dead Fox"(incomplete)

"The Lilies Break Open Over the Dark Water" read by Michael Carey

Prose

excerpt from The Rules of the Dance

Interviews

"Mary Oliver: A Solitary Walk" by Steven Ratiner for Christian Science Monitor 1992

Lannan audio interview with Coleman Barks following the August 2001 reading above