Scribbles and Bits

American Life in Poetry: Column 029
by TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

Many of you have seen flocks of birds or schools of minnows acting as if they were guided by a common intelligence, turning together, stopping together. Here is a poem by Debra Nystrom that beautifully describes a flight of swallows returning to their nests, […]

… and you don’t know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?

I saw Joe Satriani in Phoenix on the 6th…