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. The poem is ...

Listen to Michael Collier reading this poem. Bird song in the morning air but also the whirr of my neighbor’s lift as it raises him in his wheelchair onto the bed of his truck. Not someone to ...

Memorizing a poem first thing in the morning became a way of attuning me to a different logic. Before 2020, certain aspects of poetry — how it often communicated mood rather than plot, how it ...