My favorite poet digs Hank Mobley. Billy Collins, the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003 and author of 16 books, was so moved by the tenor saxophonist's sound late last year that he wrote a poem about him. Billy has been a jazz fan since childhood (go here), and I've featured his poems on Sonny Rollins here and Roland Kirk here. [Photo…
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