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A Labor of Love, Resurrected
Here is a lovely story: a book finding a well-deserved audience 125 years after the author self-published it. The book is Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio, and the author a...
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D. H. Lawrence’s “Pomegranate”
Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Sometimes in life you get yelled at. No matter your moral fiber, it can’t be avoided all the time. It happens in Marine...
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The Uncommon Birds of George Edwards
The American Kingfisher The Bearded Vulture The Toucan or Brazilian Pye The Golden Bird of Paradise The King Bird of Paradise The Whooping Crane The Black-Capped Lory The Green Parrot of the West...
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By Conservative Estimate
Here’s a weekend recommendation for you—think of it as an extended Staff Pick, if you like. Bill and Coo was made in 1948 to showcase “Burton’s Birds,” a troupe of trained lovebirds managed by former...
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Angry Birds
From The Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1893. Here’s a scene from Barbara Pym’s 1952 novel Excellent Women, in which the protagonist, Mildred Lathbury, meets Everard Bone’s eccentric...
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Where They Live
Guy Laramée, via This Is ColossalThe French Canadian artist Guy Laramée, whom we’ve featured before on the Daily, has a new series of book sculptures, “Onde Elles Moran”—“Where They Live.” Laramée...
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A Century of Censorship, and Other News
Audrey Munson, in a still from Inspiration.Our new anthology, The Unprofessionals, is out now. What does it mean to be unprofessional, you ask? In many cases, it’s as easy as spitting in someone’s food...
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In the past week, I’ve downloaded a guided meditation app, bought a new album I’d been looking forward to, and let several worthy podcasts pile up in my queue. And yet, the only thing I find myself...
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April to May
Camille Pissarro, Gelée blanche, 1873.Joyce E. Peseroff’s poem “April to May” appeared in our Spring 1979 issue. Her latest collection is Know Thyself. 1.It is cold enough for rainto coagulate &...
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First Breakfast at Home Following an Emergency Appendectomy
Judy Longley’s poem “First Breakfast at Home Following an Emergency Appendectomy” appeared in our Summer 1998 issue. Her collection My Journey Toward You was the 1993 winner of the Marianne Moore Prize...
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Adam Reads The Guide to Western Birds
Patty Seyburn’s poem “Adam Reads The Guide to Western Birds” appeared in our Fall 2001 issue. Her latest collection is Hilarity. ... let fowl fly above the earth in theopen firmament of heaven. Genesis...
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Rare Beasts, Birds, and the Calaboose
A brief history of London’s Tower Menagerie.Royal Menagerie, 1812.It was New Year’s Eve 1764, and John Wesley—founding father of Methodism, horseback proselytizer, teetotaler—stood before the structure...
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Meeting One’s Madness
Our newest correspondent is Megan Mayhew Bergman, who will be writing about naturalism. For her first piece she considers the writer Alan Watts and the “age of environmental anxiety.”Eric Ravilious,...
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Zebras Anything
From a 1938 WPA poster for the Brookfield Zoo.James Tate’s poem “Zebras Anything” appeared in our Fall 1975 issue. I wish somebody would give me a couple of live panda bears. After all these years I...
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Sentinel Species
Meditation on a life of birding. Every fall, thousands of snow geese descend on Addison, Vermont, stark-white birds with black wing tips falling to the fields and ponds near the Dead Creek Wildlife...
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Reading J. A. Baker’s The Peregrine in Fall
Good artists imitate; great artists steal. In our new series, Stolen, writers share stories of theft. It was autumn and warm, late evening, and the shadows were as long as the hot busses that hissed...
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In the past week, I’ve downloaded a guided meditation app, bought a new album I’d been looking forward to, and let several worthy podcasts pile up in my queue. And yet, the only thing I find myself...
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April to May
Camille Pissarro, Gelée blanche, 1873. Joyce E. Peseroff’s poem “April to May” appeared in our Spring 1979 issue. Her latest collection is Know Thyself. 1.It is cold enough for rainto coagulate &...
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First Breakfast at Home Following an Emergency Appendectomy
Judy Longley’s poem “First Breakfast at Home Following an Emergency Appendectomy” appeared in our Summer 1998 issue. Her collection My Journey Toward You was the 1993 winner of the Marianne Moore...
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Adam Reads The Guide to Western Birds
Patty Seyburn’s poem “Adam Reads The Guide to Western Birds” appeared in our Fall 2001 issue. Her latest collection is Hilarity. … let fowl fly above the earth in theopen firmament of heaven. Genesis...
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