A Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher takes flight on the front cover of the new chapbook "Words of a Feather" with poems inspired by Kansas birds. Many of us have been spending more time outside during the ...

Many birds who summer in Minnesota are headed south, although the hardy ones stay. Today we honor them with a look at “Little by Little, the Bird Builds Its Nest,” made up of poetry about birds from ...

Poetry for the birds My appreciation of poetry pretty much stalled in grade school. I never got beyond rhyming verse. So when I was given a copy of "Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems ...

Kendall Dunkelberg's "Tree Fall with Birdsong" explores the intersection of nature, memory, and the human spirit. The collection features poems about birds, landscapes, childhood memories, and ...

It’s time for young birdwatchers to turn their attention from watching birds to writing about them. Born Free USA is sponsoring a poetry contest for children ages 5 to 18. Winning poems will be ...

GRAND FORKS – North Dakota State University Press has published a book that every North Dakotan who likes poetry and loves birds really ought to have. It’s called “Field Notes.” The author is Margaret ...

So when he began his latest project, a musical setting of poems about birds, he approached the subject from the point of view of the written word. The birds themselves were almost an afterthought.