It's not often you see a fully assembled gospel choir show up in a hospital's intensive care unit, but the sounds of hope are often just what the doctor ordered. And few people can provide better ...

About it being “the thing with feathers - / That perches in the soul - / And sings the tune without the words - / And never stops at all”? Maggie Nelson wrote about hope, too, in her book ...

I recall Emily Dickinson verse from childhood: ” ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul.” In a lot of ways, this summer has been for the birds.

Recently, I’ve been listening to The Lost Birds: An Extinction Elegy, by American composer Christopher Tin. It is an arrangement based on the poems of ...

Sometimes I feel like the most tangible thing I’ve gotten from my college education is a broader and more refined understanding of just how many things are wrong with the world, how many terrible ...

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute recently opened “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: Contemporary Women Nature Artists,” featuring artwork influenced by Roger Tory Peterson’s own archives and artwork.

Since the launch of HSR V2.2, phonograph completionists have noted that "Hope Is the Thing With Feathers (Overture)" is a particularly tricky disk to track down.