Dear Abby: For years, I used to shoot birds-just for sport. I am enclosing the poem that convinced me to give up that sport. Some people may think the poem is ”corny,” but it had a powerful effect on ...

Craig Morgan Teicher reads "The Virtues of Birds," a fable from his book, "Cradle Book." Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic and freelance writer. His first book of poems, "Brenda Is in the Room ...

Mother Nature doesn’t rest. The snow falls and creates a test. The bird feeders have been filled. And the sunflower seeds are chilled. The birds find nutty nourishment best. A mix of feeder seeds ...

Now that the trees are full of baby parakeets which look like bright green powder-puffs, and baby crows, it seems a good time to write about a book a friend just gave me. It’s called The Poetry of ...

Mary Yurkoviitch recently spoke to members of the Pasadena Poetry Society about “The Sibley Guide to Bird Life.” Yurkovitch said at first she didn’t see the relationship, but because she loves birds, ...

In 2021, the second full year of the pandemic, I began to go outside more after a year of intense insideness. Like others, I started noticing what I had not known how to see previously: the arching of ...

The Poetry of Birds, a collection of avian verse edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee, takes flight, finds Adam O'Riordan Ever since the Anglo Saxon elegist behind The Seafarer sought comfort from his ...

His feathers spread for his mate, Quivering, glimmering a love dance." — The peacock dances and the peacock cries, Reza Asad Al Huda Anupam At Alliance Francaise de Dhaka (AFD), a gallery brims with ...