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Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the most spirited voices in American poetry. The author, editor, and translator of more than 30 volumes, she is best known for her poetry collections Fuel (1998) and You and Yours (2005), and her award-winning anthology of international poems for young people This Same Sky (1992). In her affirming introduction for that book, she writes, “Whenever someone suggests ‘how ...

My son and daughter-in-law were here this morning and she had an odd question. Which of my bird dogs, she wondered, was the most “birdy”?

This was the one thing the Celtics simply could not let happen Friday night yet they did. They couldn’t give the Philadelphia 76ers a reason to believe. They could have lost the game, as they did, and still have returned to the Garden for Monday night’s Game 5 feeling as if they’d gotten out of Philadelphia what they needed, which was one win and control of home-court advantage again. They could ...