The birds are back in woods behind my house. Wrens, nuthatches, tree-creepers; from first light their bright calls spill into my sleep. After a winter watching a monoculture of jackdaws floating over ...

George Herbert (1593 – 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. He was wealthy, artistic and talented, and enjoyed prominence at Cambridge University and, later, in the British Parliament.

A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa American studies and art history professor emeritus is expanding awareness around the fragility of Hawaiʻi’s flora and fauna with his latest published work. Joseph ...

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 ...

The first of the American Romantics, author of such poems as “Thanatopsis” and “March,” which appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day on the second of that month this year, William Cullen Bryant ...

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 ...

Trish Reeves 's books include The Receipt (2023); God, Maybe (reissued 2025); and Returning the Question, which won the ...

A dead bird stumbled upon during a walk leads the poet on an inward journey confronting historical and biological cycles and the act of writing itself A dead bird in the snow is not how I wish to ...

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 ...