Friday, May 5th, 1 to 2 p.m. Five poets whose collections have been published by the Washington, D.C.-based Word Works will read poems that explore the physical and metaphysical presence of birds. Their poems observe and describe different species, with their various behaviors, and consider birds as harbingers, emissaries, and omens, as figures of hope,...

At the Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, Boston (one block from the Park Street T station).

7 p.m. on Friday, November 11th, at the Loring Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA. MC'd by Sandee Storey. Free and open to the public.