Judith Beveridge’s poetic eye has always been unblinking. She continues to stare even when the sight is shocking, and she ...

No one suspects the feathered crew is less abundant than before. The world is full of birds. How few would note one sparrow less or more. This poem appears in the October 2022 issue. We would love to ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. You might remember this poem from the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, in which Robin Williams’s character recites the final two ...

Thousands of years ago, humankind figured out how to transform one of our greatest inventions into infinite beauty, and language gave way to poetry. From the prehistoric poems of the Nile ...

Elizabeth Cheney writes a poem: Said the Robin to the Sparrow. “I should really like to know, Why these anxious human beings Rush about and worry so.” Said the Sparrow to the Robin ...

This sonnet was featured in the 1989 movie Dead Poets Society, featuring Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke and Josh Charles. Where to read this sonnet: Poetry Foundation. William Shakespeare ...

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A poem of avian reflection and longing.

Indie distributor Film Movement has snapped up North American rights to Swiss director Ramon Zürcher’s “The Sparrow in the Chimney ... of Happiness”; Robin Campillo’s “Red Island ...

Connie L. Bogard, of Oronoco, is a participant in the Southeast Minnesota Poets Group.