Teacher Inquiry – Gathering Research Questions
1.) Who is the poet Mary Oliver? What is her biographical information?
According to a biographic piece on poets.org and poetryfoundation.org:
- Mary Oliver was born in 1935 in Ohio.
- She lived in the home of St. Vincent Millay as a teenager and helped sort through papers Millay left behind.
- In the mid-1950s, Mary Oliver attended Ohio State University and Vassar College; she did not receive a degree.
- Her first poetry collection, No Voyage and Other Poems, was published in 1963.
- Since her initial collection, Mary Oliver has published numerous books of poetry.
- Honors for Mary Oliver include the Pulitzer Prize, an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, a Lannan Literary Award, the Poetry Society of America’s Shelly Memorial Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Oliver held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Bennington College until 2001.
- She lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts for over fifty years and currently resides in southeastern Florida.
2.) What works have Mary Oliver contributed?
- From 1965 to present, Mary Oliver has published an assortment of poetry collections, books, and periodical pieces. Some selections from her bibliography include: o American Primitive (1983) o Dream Work…show more content… Moreover, the instruction should not be an opportunity to directly instruct students on Mary Oliver and her poetry, rather to just initiate their engagement so that they can independently and collaboratively
