Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

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  • Tue Apr 28 : 

    On-stage conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters after 7:00 show

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NYC PREMIERE

Tuesday, April 28 at 7:00: The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters

If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Best-selling poet and Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, queer and out but intensely private – Oliver’s poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites. She was America’s unlikely, contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and us, her readers – to the known and unknowable world. Sasha Waters’ beguiling portrait features poems read by Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Jesse Welles, and Oprah Winfrey.

Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Spring 2026

  • Country USA
  • Running Time 91 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor DOC NYC Selects
  • Director Sasha Waters
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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