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Open Books: Events
June 28, 2009 03:00 PM
A READING FOR THE BIRDS
Some years ago, Judith Kitchen and Ted Kooser began compiling an anthology of bird poems. The result is The Poets Guide to the Birds, ($22 Anhinga), a gathering of 151 poems from 137 contemporary American poets, a poetic sky filled with vireos, whippoorwills, falcons, gulls, larks, and many more species. Here are the heron, as envisioned by Jane Hirshfield, who “slept / with his long neck / folded, like a letter / put away,” and the sparrow, who “is / his hunger organized,” as Wendell Berry so neatly puts it. To celebrate the publication of this rich anthology, Ms. Kitchen joins us to read from it this afternoon, along with contributors Duane Niatum, Rick Barot, Christianne Balk, Pamela Gross, and Stan Sanvel Rubin. To honor the anthology’s subjects, Open Books will donate a minimum of 10% of the day’s sales to the Seattle Audubon Society.
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