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Provincetown Librarian Remembers Late Poet Mary Oliver

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In this Nov. 18, 1992 file photo, Mary Oliver appears at the National Book Awards in New York where she received the poetry award for her book "New and Selected Poems." Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection, died Thursday at her home in Hobe Sound, Fla. The case of death was lymphoma. She was 83. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
FILE - In this Nov. 18, 1992 file photo, Mary Oliver appears at the National Book Awards in New York where she received the poetry award for her book "New and Selected Poems." Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection, died Thursday at her home in Hobe Sound, Fla. The case of death was lymphoma. She was 83. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Remembrances have poured out endlessly since news broke that Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver died at the age of 83.  Many of the stories and warm wishes come from Provincetown, Mass., where Oliver lived for more than 40 years.

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Nan Cinnater, lead librarian at the Provincetown Public Library.

This article was originally published on January 25, 2019.

This segment aired on January 25, 2019.

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