Flying Metaphors, Soaring Songs—Bird Poems

Having just celebrated the American holiday many call “Turkey Day,” we think it’s time to unveil our newest thematic anthology, Bird Poems. Their flight, their songs, their colors, their feathers, their strangeness and their familiarity—all are poetic elements, from the nightingales and skylarks who inspired the Romantics, to Walt Whitman’s mockingbird muse, to Edgar Allan Poe’s oracular raven, to Emily Dickinson’s hope and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s caged bird singing, from Tennyson’s terza rima eagle to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ cheery woodlark to William Butler Yeats’ mythological sonnet swan, from Wallace Stevens’ blackbirdto D.H. Lawrence’s turkey-cock and humming-bird.... fly on the wings of our bird poems!