Janet M. Ruth 8904083

Janet Ruth is an emeritus research ornithologist. She has published scientific papers on bird ecology and natural history stories in bird magazines. Her writing focuses on connections to the natural world. She has recent poems in The Ekphrastic Review, The Heron’s Nest, and Manzano Mountain Review, and in several regional anthologies including four volumes of the Poets Speak anthology—HERS, WATER, WALLS, and SURVIVAL—and "Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems." In June 2018, she published her first book, Feathered Dreams: Celebrating Birds in Poems, Stories & Images.

Here, there and everywhere we each experience a connection with Nature. In Feathered Dreams, Janet Ruth--ornithologist, poet, artist, and international birder--shares her love of birds through poem, story, and image. She relies beautifully on her scientist's eye and artist's heart to recreate the magic we can encounter when we stop to watch and listen.

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Future Best-Sellers?

Meet Lesley Bannatyne, Cinthia Ritchie and Janet Ruth, winners in the book festival's annual writing competition. This year's contest attracted 693 entries from all over the world. This may not be the last time we see Bannatyne, Ritchie and Ruth at the festival!

Koffler Room 216 (Seats 89, Wheelchair accessible)  
Sun, Mar 3, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Special
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - Koffler Patio (following presentation)  

Panelists: Lesley Bannatyne, Cinthia Ritchie, Janet Ruth
Moderator: Meg Files

Book:

Feathered Dreams: celebrating birds in poems, stories & images

Poetry
Mercury HeartLink
June 2018
ISBN 9781940769950
144 pages

Here, there, and everywhere we each experience a connection with Nature. In Feathered Dreams, Janet Ruth--ornithologist, poet, artist, and international birder--shares her love of birds through poem, story, and image. She relies beautifully on her scientist's eye and artist's heart to recreate the magic we can encounter when we stop to watch and listen. Dedicated to 2018-The Year of the Bird-the collection introduces us to birds familiar and exotic, from grasshopper sparrows (her beloved research subjects), ravens, and owls, to resplendent quetzals and red-capped manakins. The poet's voice envelops the reader in humor and awe, sadness and joy. With scenes drawn from a Pennsylvania childhood, a New Mexico neighborhood, or a tropical rainforest, the poet explores themes of loss, dreams, and stories both intimate and far-reaching about the birds with whom we share the landscape. This collection of avian treasures is a "wingèd paean of gratitude for the wonders, the messengers that are birds." Feathered dreams drift on the wind of poems and memories in this love song to birds, to life. More/less