The Gift of Animals sugar plum ballerinas

The Gift of Animals sugar plum ballerinasThis unique collection of poems from diverse contemporary voices offers a range of perspectives on humans' complex relationship with animals, celebrating and bearing witness to the lives of animals both wild and domestic. Animals have long been a source of inspiration, sustenance, and companionship, and poems about and for animals are among the oldest traditions across human cultures. This collection of contemporary poems adds to this ancient lineage,

A special ops soldier intuitively recognizes something's "off" during a high-risk mission

a solution even more dangerous than the curse begins to take shape

Emma McKenna can’t wait for third grade at the brand-new Curiosity Academy

Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry

Sena's ordeal

feeding her stuffed animals before herself

This time it's personal

And can we forgive our mothers if they are the ones who inflict the deepest wounds

and ship her off to camp

unexpected dips

and all too often enforced the law in a biased or unjust manner

Kenji Lopez-Alt (The Food Lab and seriouseats