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 ...

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 ...

Murphy’s poem “Flying Under the Influence in Issaquah” focuses on robins that become tipsy after feeding on fermented fruit.

A moment on a sidewalk becomes a koan, a fragment bearing a mysterious pronoun. Who needs it more: the person who tells it or the person who receives? Is it gift or intrusion? Repeating in memory the ...

The first of the American Romantics, author of such poems as “Thanatopsis” and “March,” which appeared as the Sun’s Poem of the Day on the second of that month this year, William Cullen Bryant ...

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