Bird expert and poet Drew Lanham on how hes inspired by the natural world

Drew Lanham:

No, it wasn't a thing, right?

Ask 10 people, and nine of them are going to say, what? Oh, an orthodontist? You want to — no, ornithologist And, quite frankly, once people learned what an ornithologist was, then they said, well, that's not what Black kids do.

An ultimate question is, why birds?

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