When he was growing up in New York City, Florence photographer Stephen Petegorsky was fascinated by the skeletons and diorama displays of animals in places like the city’s Museum of Natural History, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 19—So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it's hard to chose one as This Season's Best. But we ...

“Darling, I Love You” by Daniel Ladinsky (Penguin) is the perfect read for those seeking respite from the seemingly endless stream of unsettling events in the news these days. Ladinsky, well-known for ...

Vicki Hearne, the poet, essayist and animal trainer whose death at age 55 was reported last week, had a dual connection with Northeast. In late 1993, she wrote a series of short meditative articles ...

Despite its arresting cover and its focus on animal poems, this collection lacks consistency. The 14 poems highlight intriguing collective nouns and alternate between clever descriptions of real-life ...

Given my long-term interest in the broad topic of animal sentience, I'm always looking for new ways to express what science and other sorts of inquiries are telling us about animal consciousness and ...

The Poet Laureate looks into a tiger’s eyes, holds a giant African land snail in the palm of his hand, and stands in the middle of a room full of spiders as he drafts a brand new animal poem across ...

We humans exploit other animals. But can we see them from a different perspective? Our new columnist Manon Hopf is exploring the poetry of other animals. I want to try to deconstruct this dominant, ...