Mary Oliver: best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out, but intensely private. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic stalked the ponds and forests of Provincetown for nearly fifty years with her partner Molly Malone Cook in order to open herself—and us, her readers—to the known and unknowable world.
Featuring John Waters, Maria Shriver, Jason Reynolds, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.
Director Sasha Waters is scheduled to attend on Thursday, June 11.
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