Down House, home of the Darwin family My father and I love pigeons because of the many ways they might go wrong: No appetite, watery droppings, air in the crop, swollen eyes, or unable to eat corn. Some have tail feather cases that don’t open. Last year we had baby fantails whose crops became filled […]
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Sarah Rose Nordgren
Sarah Rose Nordgren is the author of the poetry collections Best Bones (2014), and Darwin’s Mother (forthcoming 2017), both from University of Pittsburgh Press. Her poems and essays appear widely in journals such as Agni, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review Online, Copper Nickel, and American Poetry Review. Native to North Carolina, Nordgren is a PhD candidate […]