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 ...

Cynthia Benjamin, in Pottersville, sent us an original poem about the birds she's been watching and listening to this spring: it's called For The... May 16, 2020 — Cynthia Benjamin, in Pottersville, ...

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 ...

Lyn Gallacher takes us through the Bird's journey and the arguments as they range from roadkill to romance, and you'll hear a number of voices commenting on the poem, including the author Clive James.

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 ...

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 ...