Birds in the hand: fiction and poetry about birds

Praise them / Li-Young Lee

The kingfisher / Leslie Norris

Angel of mercy, angel of wrath / Ethan Canin

The hummingbird: a seduction / Pattiann Rogers

Duck blind / Robert Hass

The white ibis / Robert Hill Long

Hardware sparrows / R.T. Smith

The bird watcher / David Wagoner

Jealous husband returns in form of parrot / Robert Olen Butler

Abracadabra kit / Joel Brouwer

Under the vulture-tree / David Bottoms

27,000 miles / Albert Goldbarth

The Jain Bird Hospital in Delhi / William Meredith

The elixir / Sheri Joseph

From prodigal summer / Barbara Kingsolver

Cataract / Charles Baxter

How to obtain eagle feathers for religious use / Sherman Alexie

Eagle poem / John Harjo

At the Shorebird Festival: Grays Harbor County, Washington / Martha Silano

North Haven / Elizabeth Bishop

The birds of Vietnam / Hayden Carruth

From the bird artist / Howard Norman

Birds with no feet / Andrea Barrett

Flamingos / Greg Pape

Driving myself to a poetry reading / Billy Collins

The bird feeder / William Hathaway

The sea we read about / Philip Levine

Rara Avis / T.C. Boyle

Flight / John L'Heureux

How to build an owl / Kathleen Lynch

A phoebe's nest / W.D. Snodgrass

Corporate geese / Chase Twichell

The singing / Kim Addonizio

Bizarzyski, mad bard, carpenter savant, and chuckwagon wrangler of Manchester, Montana, feeds the finicky birds / Paul Zarzyski

The turkey / Flannery O'Connor

A still moment / Eudora Welty

Worlds apart / Richard Jackson

Big bird comes to the Rio Grande Valley in 1976 / Jap Epton Seale

Owls / Louise Erdrich

Heart of Autumn / Robert Penn Warren

The cranes / Peter Meinke

A long Sunday / Maximilian Schlaks

Bird / William Archila

Guts / Daisy Fried

Detail from the creation of man / Jorie Graham

Against flight / Rita Dove

Watching the nighthawk's dive / Robert Dana

Dreaming cow / Gladys Swan

Transmigrations / Kellie Wells

The heron / Wendell Berry

One for the life list / Brendan Galvin

The hohntor / Richard Foerster

Birding the battle of attu / Macklin Smith

Cedar waxwing on scarlot firethorn / Stanley Plumly

From Farmer / Jim Harrison

Little frogs in a ditch / Tim Gautreaux

That woman / Sarah Getty

In June, in Summer / B.J. Buckley

Bringing down the birds / Maxine Kumin

Raven days / Andrew Hudgins

The writer / Richard Wilbur

Emory bear hands' birds / Barry Lopez

Beyond mecca / Maya Sonenberg

A hermit thrush / Amy Clampitt

The quail / James Wright

Drifting Off / Seamus Heaney

Birds of Hoboken / William Wenthe

No matter what has happened this May / Reginald Gibbons

A dove of the east / Mark Helprin

The season of phantasmal peace / Derek Walcott.