Collection

Poems about Fathers

Poems for Father’s Day and other occasions

In Praise Of Fathers

- Those Winter Sundays
  Robert Hayden
- From the magazine:
  My Dad Says
  Naomi Ayala
- The Gift
  Li-Young Lee
- To Her Father with Some Verses
  Anne Bradstreet
- Only a Dad
  Edgar Albert Guest
- Lines to My Father
  Countee Cullen
- My Papa’s Waltz
  Theodore Roethke
- What For
  Garrett Hongo

In Praise Of Fatherhood

- From the magazine:
  Lines Composed upon Changing a Diaper
  Jaswinder Bolina
- Talking About the Day
  Jim Daniels
- Danse Russe
  William Carlos Williams
- After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
  Galway Kinnell
- The Alien
  Greg Delanty
- Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be
  Ross Gay
- Up, Up from Daydreams/Lullaby
  Adrian Matejka

Like Father Like Child

- Digging
  Seamus Heaney
- scars
  Truong Tran
- The Harp
  Bruce Weigl
- Proust’s Madeleine
  Kenneth Rexroth
- Carpentry
  Carl Dennis
- Child on the Marsh
  Andrew Hudgins
- Moonshine
  Yusef Komunyakaa

A Father’s First Duty

- Duty
  Natasha Trethewey
- From the magazine:
  From “understory”
  Craig Santos Perez
- Father, Child, Water
  Gary Dop
- From the magazine:
  When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving
  Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Fifteen
  Leslie Monsour
- On the Beach at Night
  Walt Whitman

Lessons from My Father

- Manufacturing
  Alan R. Shapiro
- Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
  David Bottoms
- From the magazine:
  On the Birth of a Son
  Su Tung-Po
- From the magazine:
  Poet Wrestling with Her Empire of Dirt
  Rosebud Ben-Oni
- From the magazine:
  My Father’s “Norton Introduction to Literature,” Third Edition (1981)
  Hai-Dang Phan

Dads at Work

- From the magazine:
  In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes
  Eduardo C. Corral
- Burning the Fields
  Linda Bierds
- Landscape, Dense with Trees
  Ellen Bryant Voigt
- My Pa
  J. Patrick Lewis
- Supernatural Love
  Gjertrud Schnackenberg
- This Can’t Be
  Bruce Smith
- After the Deindustrialization of America, My Father Enters Television Repair
  Peter Oresick

Father Wounds

- From the magazine:
  Daddy Dozens
  Jamila Woods
- From the magazine:
  Go Forget Your Father
  Cathy Linh Che
- From the magazine:
  Imaginary Dad
  Tina Cane
- From the magazine:
  The Ache
  Mahogany L. Browne
- From the magazine:
  DetoNation
  Ocean Vuong
- From the magazine:
  Letter from Austerlitz
  Joan Naviyuk Kane
- From the magazine:
  son/daughter
  Kai Conradi
- Spree
  Maxine Kumin
- The Father of My Country
  Diane Wakoski
- Father’s Day for Gay Boys
  Dan Vera

Losing One’s Father

- Childhood Ideogram
  Larry Levis
- His Stillness
  Sharon Olds
- From the magazine:
  The Acceptance
  Raymond Antrobus
- From the magazine:
  Epicedium to Potter’s Field
  Frank Lima
- From the magazine:
  Obit
  Victoria Chang
- The Lost Pilot
  James Tate
- Men at My Father’s Funeral
  William Matthews
- From the magazine:
  Let Him Rest
  George Abraham
- The Hospital Window
  James L. Dickey

In Memory

- My dad & sardines
  Toi Derricotte
- From the magazine:
  Main Na Bhoolunga
  Fatimah Asghar
- From the magazine:
  Letter to My Father
  Martín Espada
- Sweet Daddy
  Patricia Smith
- To Alexander Graham
  W. S. Graham
- For a Father
  Elise Partridge
- Youth
  James Wright
- For My Father, Karachi 1947
  Meena Alexander
- All My Pretty Ones
  Anne Sexton
- father's voice
  Sonia Sanchez
- From the magazine:
  My Own Private Patriarchy
  Jennifer Chang

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:My Dad Says

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Lines Composed upon Changing a Diaper

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:From “understory”

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:On the Birth of a Son

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Poet Wrestling with Her Empire of Dirt

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:My Father’s “Norton Introduction to Literature,” Third Edition (1981)

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Daddy Dozens

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Go Forget Your Father

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Imaginary Dad

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:The Ache

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:DetoNation

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Letter from Austerlitz

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:son/daughter

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:The Acceptance

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Epicedium to Potter’s Field

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Obit

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Let Him Rest

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Main Na Bhoolunga

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:Letter to My Father

poetry-magazineFrom the magazine:My Own Private Patriarchy

From the magazine:
My Dad Says

From the magazine:
Lines Composed upon Changing a Diaper

From the magazine:
From “understory”

From the magazine:
When I Think of Tamir Rice While Driving

From the magazine:
On the Birth of a Son

From the magazine:
Poet Wrestling with Her Empire of Dirt

From the magazine:
My Father’s “Norton Introduction to Literature,” Third Edition (1981)

From the magazine:
In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes

From the magazine:
Daddy Dozens

From the magazine:
Go Forget Your Father

From the magazine:
Imaginary Dad

From the magazine:
The Ache

From the magazine:
DetoNation

From the magazine:
Letter from Austerlitz

From the magazine:
son/daughter

From the magazine:
The Acceptance

From the magazine:
Epicedium to Potter’s Field

From the magazine:
Obit

From the magazine:
Let Him Rest

From the magazine:
Main Na Bhoolunga

From the magazine:
Letter to My Father

From the magazine:
My Own Private Patriarchy