Legendary jazz musician Charlie Parker died 50 years ago Saturday. Poet Joe Pacheco recalls one of Parker's last performances, when the saxophonist known as "Bird" played in Manhattan. As he helped ...
In 2021, the second full year of the pandemic, I began to go outside more after a year of intense insideness. Like others, I started noticing what I had not known how to see previously: the arching of ...
Two birds came upon a crust of bread lying on the path through the woods. “Please, after you,” said the first bird. “No, you saw the crust before I did, you eat first,” replied the second. “No I ...
Dear Abby: For years, I used to shoot birds-just for sport. I am enclosing the poem that convinced me to give up that sport. Some people may think the poem is ”corny,” but it had a powerful effect on ...
Mary Yurkoviitch recently spoke to members of the Pasadena Poetry Society about “The Sibley Guide to Bird Life.” Yurkovitch said at first she didn’t see the relationship, but because she loves birds, ...
Terry Ann Carter tried to express the smallest amount of warmth on a cold winter day in For the White Bird.ADRIAN LAM The Times Colonist Solstice Poetry series concludes today with a poem from Terry ...
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of "The Verging Cities" (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015). She teaches at Juan Diego Catholic High School and lives in Salt Lake City. About The Academy of ...
The Poetry of Birds, a collection of avian verse edited by Simon Armitage and Tim Dee, takes flight, finds Adam O'Riordan Ever since the Anglo Saxon elegist behind The Seafarer sought comfort from his ...
In celebration of St Patrick's Day, here is an emotive ballad from one of Ireland's foremost nationalist poets in which an expat longs for her homeland Born in Dublin in 1866, Dora Sigerson Shorter ...
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