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A) Mary Janet Oliver B) Mary Josephine Oliver C) Mary Jane Oliver D) Mary Jean Oliver
A) September 10, 1938 B) September 10, 1935 C) January 17, 1935 D) January 17, 1938
A) January 17, 2019 B) September 10, 2015 C) January 17, 2015 D) September 10, 2019
A) Christopher Award B) Lannan Literary Award C) Pulitzer Prize D) National Book Award
A) Pioneer Award B) National Book Award C) Pulitzer Prize D) PEN New England Award
A) Maple Heights, Ohio B) Bennington, Vermont C) Austerlitz, New York D) Provincetown, Massachusetts
A) Social studies teacher and athletics coach B) Editor and publisher C) Botanist and nature writer D) Musician and orchestra conductor
A) 17 B) 15 C) 14 D) 12
A) 1951 B) 1963 C) 1955 D) 1950
A) Percussion section B) Brass section C) Woodwind section D) String section
A) Walt Whitman B) Emily Dickinson C) Edna St. Vincent Millay D) Henry David Thoreau
A) Daughter B) Sister C) Cousin D) Mother
A) Bucknell University and Sweet Briar College B) Bennington College and Tufts University C) Ohio State University and Vassar College D) Harvard University and Yale University
A) Maple Heights B) Steepletop C) Green Pastures D) Provincetown House
A) No Voyage, and Other Poems B) House of Light C) New and Selected Poems D) American Primitive
A) 30 B) 35 C) 25 D) 28
A) Sweet Briar College B) Case Western Reserve University C) Bennington College D) Bucknell University
A) Thirst B) House of Light C) Winter Hours D) American Primitive
A) Poet In Residence B) Writer in Residence C) Editor of Essays D) Chair for Distinguished Teaching
A) Director of Creative Writing B) Catharine Osgood Foster Chair C) Poet In Residence D) Margaret Banister Writer in Residence
A) 2009 B) 1995 C) 2004 D) 2001
A) Christopher Award and L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award B) Lannan Literary Award and Pioneer Award C) Green Prize and Pulitzer Prize D) Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award
A) House of Light B) Winter Hours C) American Primitive D) New and Selected Poems
A) Silence B) Nature C) Amazement D) The ocean
A) 2004 B) 2006 C) 1990 D) 1999
A) 2001 B) 2009 C) 1998 D) 1996
A) Santa Monica Public Library Green Prize B) New York Times Literary Board C) Lannan Foundation D) PEN New England
A) Dartmouth College B) Marquette University C) The Art Institute of Boston D) Tufts University
A) Ohio State University B) Marquette University C) Tufts University D) Dartmouth College
A) Vassar College B) Bucknell University C) Dartmouth College D) Tufts University
A) The Art Institute of Boston B) Sweet Briar College C) Marquette University D) Case Western Reserve University
A) The New Yorker B) The Christian Science Monitor C) America magazine D) The New York Times
A) Bennington B) Austerlitz C) Maple Heights D) Provincetown
A) Rumi and Hafez B) Emerson and Dickinson C) Keats and Shelley D) Whitman and Thoreau
A) Modernism B) Realism C) Romanticism D) Transcendentalism
A) A blue comma B) A green dot C) A wandering star D) A quiet shadow
A) Notebooks B) Index cards C) Pens D) Pencils
A) 3-by-5-inch B) 2-by-3-inch C) 4-by-6-inch D) 5-by-8-inch
A) Ruth Franklin B) Lisa Ampleman C) Maxine Kumin D) Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
A) Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Byron B) Milton, Blake, and Donne C) Emerson, Shelley, and Keats D) Dickinson, Poe, and Frost
A) Walt Whitman B) Emily Dickinson C) Edgar Allan Poe D) Henry David Thoreau
A) As an antidote to inattention and baroque conventions B) As a critique of traditional pastoral poetry C) As a celebration of modern urban complexity D) As an exploration of industrial isolation
A) It became more politically radical B) It focused increasingly on urban landscapes C) It abandoned nature themes entirely D) It became more and more spiritual
A) Winter Hours B) Devotions C) Thirst D) House of Light
A) Angela Alaimo O'Donnell B) Debra Dean Murphy C) Ruth Franklin D) Maxine Kumin
A) Debra Dean Murphy B) Lisa Ampleman C) Ruth Franklin D) Angela Alaimo O'Donnell
A) Jewish B) Buddhist C) Quaker D) Christian
A) The Vast Ocean Begins Just Outside Our Church B) After Her Death C) The Poet Thinks About the Donkey and Gethsemane D) When Death Comes
A) When Death Comes and Leaf and the Cloud B) After Her Death and Coming to God: First Days C) Six Recognitions of the Lord and The Poet Thinks About the Donkey and Gethsemane D) American Primitive and House of Light
A) The gift of presence B) The rejection of religious tradition C) The critique of American capitalism D) The pursuit of political reform
A) Early 1950s B) Late 1960s C) Early 1940s D) Late 1950s
A) Publisher B) Painter C) Poet D) Photographer
A) Publicist B) Biographer C) Literary agent D) Editor
A) 2009 B) 2019 C) 2005 D) 2012
A) Florida B) New York C) California D) Massachusetts
A) Red maple B) Black oak C) White willow D) Silver birch
A) Sasha Waters B) Benjamin Myers C) Maxine Kumin D) Alicia Ostriker
A) 85% positive rating B) 97% positive rating C) 100% positive rating D) 92% positive rating
A) 2005 B) 2019 C) 2012 D) 2015
A) Lymphoma B) Heart failure C) Pneumonia D) Lung cancer
A) 83 B) 79 C) 91 D) 86
A) Bruce Bennetin B) Sue Russell C) Alicia Ostriker D) William Logan
A) American Primitive B) Six Recognitions of the Lord C) Dream Work D) Thirst
A) Maxine Kumin B) Angela Alaimo O'Donnell C) Vicki Graham D) Bruce Bennetin
A) Sue Russell B) Holly Prado C) Diane S. Bond D) William Logan
A) Our World B) American Primitive C) Dream Work D) Thirst
A) Maxine Kumin B) Holly Prado C) Alicia Ostriker D) Marilyn Hacker
A) Marilyn Hacker B) Diane S. Bond C) Adrienne Rich D) Sasha Waters
A) American Primitive B) Thirst C) Dream Work D) Our World
A) Guggenheim Foundation B) Harvard University C) Lannan Foundation D) PEN New England
A) 1984 B) 1992 C) 1969 D) 1998
A) 1998 B) 1991 C) 2003 D) 1984
A) PEN New England B) Poetry Society of America C) Pulitzer Board D) Phi Beta Kappa
A) 2012 B) 2007 C) 2008 D) 1998 |