Is Mary Oliver a Good Poet?

This comes up every now and then. I remember someone a few years ago saying Mary Oliver was “poetry for people who don’t like poetry.” That’s not true, but even if it is, who cares? Anyway, it came up again when Maggie Zhu tweeted that Mary Oliver is “upmarket Rupi Kaur.” Zhu followed up calling Oliver a “preacher-masquerading-as-poet”.