Murphy’s poem “Flying Under the Influence in Issaquah” focuses on robins that become tipsy after feeding on fermented fruit.

Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

Craig Morgan Teicher reads "The Virtues of Birds," a fable from his book, "Cradle Book." Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet, critic and freelance writer. His first book of poems, "Brenda Is in the Room ...

The poet W. S. Merwin wrote a lot about birds: birds singing, birds dying, birds “whirled in a rising cloud … dissolving, streamering out.” This poem, “Shore Birds,” was included in Merwin’s 2005 ...

Hello, I’m Juan J. Morales, an assistant professor of English at Colorado College and a poet that lives in Pueblo, Colorado, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I am sharing my poem, “Visiting Your ...

Banter, buskers, and the Barras; single ends and smirry rain; the clockwork orange and that famous traffic cone ...