Mary Oliver

Listened to Mary Oliver read poetry on San Francisco-based non-profit City Arts & Lectures . Loved it.

Sadly, no podcast.

She differentiated between "turning into" a writer versus "becoming" a writer; the former, she said, reminded her of people who lock themselves in rooms and sharpen their pencils, while the latter go out and live their lives and integrate poetry into it.

Bonus random connection event: Linda Hunt, the host, played the character of Shadout Mapes in Dune (1984).