John Coltrane, April 1966 © Chuck Stewart Photography, LLC
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Poet, translator, children's verse writer, and editor Naomi Shihab Nye is the author of more than twenty volumes. A daughter of Palestine, Nye was raised in Ramallah, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio.
A poem from the Texas Music Issue
Townes Van Zandt kissed me on the cheek
after I guarded his guitar.
He had stayed in the bathroom a very long time.
I asked if he needed food
and he said, I never eat.
