Final Poem for My Father Misnamed In My Mouth. By Phillip B. Williams. Sunlight still holds you and gives your shapelessness to every room. By noon, the kitchen catches your hands, misshapen sunrays.

This Father’s Day poem, published in Jean Star Untermeyer’s 1918 poetry collection, Growing Pains, celebrates the change in perspective we have of our fathers from childhood to adulthood.

Self-Portrait With Father. By Donika Kelly. We sit on opposite sides of a picnic bench, behind him, the black walnut tree, its fruit rich with maggots. Behind me, a wall of ivy we prune every ...

In honor of Father's Day, acclaimed poet Martín Espada is sharing a poem about the connections and yet the different experiences that make up three generations: the poet, his father and his son ...

Isaiah Lattimore wrote a poem about his father, a man he hasn’t seen since he was 11 months old. The eighth-grade student at Jefferson Middle School said writing the poem, and sharing it, was ...

Since Father’s Day is just around the corner, I thought I’d share one of the poems I wrote in bygone days to honor my sweet husband, and all godly fathers like him. Trending.

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not ...

The family turmoil moved Hogan’s daughter, Brooke, to compose and post a heartfelt poem defending her father. Titled If You Knew My Father , the poem makes it clear she thinks he’s a great guy.

I have stage 4 cancer. He discovered he had brain cancer while visiting his son, my neighbor. Sometimes we meet strangers along the way on this cancer path, with whom we have brief, intimate ...