Birders read more, and more widely, than just about anybody I know.

I’m grateful to Doug Carlson, author of the definitive biography of Roger Tory Peterson and Assistant Editor at The Georgia Review, for word of the new spring issue of that estimable publication, entitled “Culture and the Environment.”

The keynote essay by Scott Russell Sanders draws responses from Alison Hawthorn Deming, David Gessner, Reg Saner, and Lauret Savoy. The issue also contains poetry by Margaret Gibson and Maxine Kumin, among others, as well as a review essay by Jeff Gundy.

Piping Plover. Photo: Darlene J. Moore

The points of view are diverse, the subjects treated equally so. What I’ve read so far is provocative, occasionally even provoking–you’ve got to read Deming’s riff on the infamous “Piping Plovers Taste Like Chicken” bumper sticker!