Celebrate Poetry and Birds at the Randall Davey Audubon Center

National poetry month is the largest literary celebration in the world with tens of millions of participants worldwide. It celebrates poets’ integral role in our culture and reminds us that poetry matters. 

Celebrate with us by walking the haiku trail at the Randall Davey Audubon Center and sit or stroll amongst the words and birds. The trail is dotted with haikus by local poets rendered on ceramic plaques and hung along a route that starts at our wildlife gardens and leads up toward the acequia.  

One of our featured poets is the current United States Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze. Arthur recently visited the Center with photographers and videographers from the Library of Congress who were interviewing him and documenting his work. Several of his poems were inspired by the beauty of the Randall Davey Center. The Center is also special to Arthur as this is where he and his wife, the poet Carol Moldaw, were married beneath an apricot tree in the orchard. 

Visit the Randall Davey Audubon Center to see Arthur and Carol’s poems on the haiku trail along with 22 other New Mexico poets, and while you’re here, stop in our gift shop to find publications by local nature poets.  See you soon!