Poems about Fathers
Poems for Father’s Day and other occasions
BY The Editors
Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden
- 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
- 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
Up, Up from Daydreams/Lullaby
Adrian Matejka
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
Duty
Natasha Trethewey
- Craig Santos Perez
Father, Child, Water
Gary Dop
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
Fifteen
Leslie Monsour
On the Beach at Night
Walt Whitman
Manufacturing
Alan R. Shapiro
Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
David Bottoms
- Su Tung-Po
- Rosebud Ben-Oni
- Hai-Dang Phan
- 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
- Jamila Woods
- Cathy Linh Che
- Tina Cane
- Mahogany L. Browne
- Ocean Vuong
- Joan Naviyuk Kane
- Kai Conradi
Spree
Maxine Kumin
The Father of My Country
Diane Wakoski
Father’s Day for Gay Boys
Dan Vera
Childhood Ideogram
Larry Levis
His Stillness
Sharon Olds
- Raymond Antrobus
- Frank Lima
- Victoria Chang
The Lost Pilot
James Tate
Men at My Father’s Funeral
William Matthews
- George Abraham
The Hospital Window
James L. Dickey
My dad & sardines
Toi Derricotte
- Fatimah Asghar
- 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
- Jennifer Chang