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Avian Literary Night

Saturday, May 29, 2004, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

At Bill and Juanita's Place

Alec DiZazzo

  • Selections from a field guide to birds of North America.

    Allan Gillis

  • DENISE LEVERTON, "The Mockingbird of Mockingbirds,"
  • W.B. YEATS, "He Reproves a Curlew," and
  • DYLAN THOMAS, "No, Pidgeon, I'm too Wise."

    Helen Gillis

  • RITA SUMMERS, "Washing Day."

    David Lyon

  • OGDEN NASH, "The Grackle" and "The Canary,"
  • WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, "To a Waterfowl,"
  • (anon.), "Death and Burial of Cock Robin,"
  • GERALD MANLEY HOPKINS, "Repeat that, Repeat (Cuckoo)," and
  • WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, "When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue."
  • Sharon Lyon

  • PERCY BUSSHE SHELLEY, "To a Skylark."

    Anne Pease

  • CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, "Child's Talk in April."

    Juanita Tarnowski

  • JANE HILL (ed.), selections from An Exhilaration of Wings.

    Bill Tarnowski

  • OVID, selection on the crow and the raven from Metamorphoses.

    David Trumbull

  • ROBET BENCHLEY, selections "High Life Among the Birds" and "End of the Chanticleer!" from My Ten Years in a Quandary.

    Mary DiZazzo Trumbull

  • DAPHNE Du MAURIER, selections from The Birds.