in a simple and powerful way, and thereby commandeer legs and wings to carry their pollen. Flowering species quickly dominated the plant kingdom. Today 90 percent of plant species are angiosperms. We ...

Jack Prelutsky, a well-known children's poet and editor of kids poetry collections, has written poems based on Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of Animals." He will read the poems when the National ...

This pairing of the late Worth's exquisite poems with Jenkins's (What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?) extraordinary, cut-paper illustrations make this a volume to treasure. Characteristic of the ...

A soft susurrus of breath cedes to the sound of fingers sliding over nylon guitar strings on “Holy Equation,” the opening track of Anna Tivel’s Animal Poem. “I’m waking up early, I’m bussing the ...