What Happens When We Die? This Poem Has Thoughts.

That is a lovely, fundamentally hopeful notion, but a sigh of melancholy echoes through the poem. “Of Mere Being” is one of ...
National Catholic Reporter

Joy Harjo's poem 'Redbird Love' teaches us to watch closely, see clearly

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 ...
PBS

Weekly Poem: ‘The Virtues of Birds’

Two birds came upon a crust of bread lying on the path through the woods. “Please, after you,” said the first bird. “No, you saw the crust before I did, you eat first,” replied the second. “No I ...
Houston Chronicle

Pasadena Poetry Society hears program on birds in poems

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, ...
The Spectrum

Poem-A-Day - 'There Is a Bird in My Mouth' by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of "The Verging Cities" (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015). She teaches at Juan Diego Catholic High School and lives in Salt Lake City. About The Academy of ...
The Garden Island

Sophia Riley honored for ‘From A Bird’s Eye’ poem

LIHUE The members of the Lihue Public Library-sponsored Live Poets Society announce that Sophia Riley is the winner of the society s first student poem contest. LIHUE — More than 2,750 people attended ...