Two of my poems and a short prose piece were published yesterday over at Thirteen Myna Birds: “God Hates Grackles,” “Lines Discovered in an Aging Ornithologist’s Field Journal,” and “Circling Vultures.” They are part of a series I’ve been working on about vultures and grackles called Birds Nobody Loves.
Poems don’t stay around long at Thirteen Myna Birds so check them out before they fly off into the ether. Be sure to look around and check out the other pieces in the current flight formation while you’re there as well.
In case you missed it, another poem from this series was published at Bolts of Silk last month (“My Tourist Yard“) and another, “Good Authority,” will appear there later this year.
9 Comments | Filed under: birds and poetry and publication announcements | Tagged: birds nobody loves, grackles, poems, publications, vultures
Being hostile to Grackles myself…they chase off the prettier birds from my back yard, I am intrigued and have enjoyed your poems in this vein.
Congratulations.
I actually like grackles. They’re quite beautiful if you catch them in good light. They also seem to play nice at the feeders, but I do only a get a few small family groups and only between March and July. Thanks for reading these.
Interesting idea for a series of poems, I’ll pop over to 13 mynahs as soon as I can.
Thanks, I hope you enjoy them.
Those were all fantastic! Love your bird poems, love them. Especially with taking those so-called unsavory characters and showing how they shimmer.
I’ve newsed it on RWP. Thanks for letting us/me know!
PS. Have you submitted to LBJ? http://www.literarybirdjournal.org/ Did I already tell you about them? (My mind. Gone.)
Thanks for posting that and for your comments. I’ll have to check out the LBJ.
Hey.
There is an international blog day for vultures September 4/5! Yep. Links can be found at Stoneymoss or The Clade.
Stoney Moss. Geeze.