Poems About Fathers

• • All My Pretty Ones

  Anne Sexton
  
• • America

  Tony Hoagland
  
• • Bewitched Playground

  David Rivard
  
• • The Brief Journey West

  Howard Nemerov
  
• • Brock

  Paul Muldoon
  
• • Burning the Fields

  Linda Bierds
  
• • Carpentry

  Carl Dennis
  
• • Child on the Marsh

  Andrew Hudgins
  
• • Childhood Ideogram

  Larry Levis
  
• • Danse Russe

  William Carlos Williams
  
• • Dressing My Daughters

  Mark Jarman
  
• • On my First Son

  Ben Jonson
  
• • Father

  Edgar Albert Guest
  
• • The Father of My Country

  Diane Wakoski
  
• • Fifteen

  Leslie Monsour
  
• • The Gift

  Li-Young Lee
  
• • Grandfather

  Michael S. Harper
  
• • The Harp

  Bruce Weigl
  
• • Heart’s Needle

  W. D. Snodgrass
  
• • His Stillness

  Sharon Olds
  
• • The Hospital Window

  James L. Dickey
  
• • I Am an Atheist Who Says His Prayers

  Karl Shapiro
  
• • Lines to My Father

  Countee Cullen
  
• • The Lost Pilot

  James Tate
  
• • Manufacturing

  Alan R. Shapiro
  
• • Men at My Father’s Funeral

  William Matthews
  
• • Messenger

  Dave Smith
  
• • Moonshine

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  
• • My Papa’s Waltz

  Theodore Roethke
  
• • On the Beach at Night

  Walt Whitman
  
• • On a View of Pasadena from the Hills

  Yvor Winters
  
• • Only a Dad

  Edgar Albert Guest
  
• • Proust’s Madeleine

  Kenneth Rexroth
  
• • Spree

  Maxine Kumin
  
• • This Can’t Be

  Bruce Smith
  
• • A Toast to the Men

  Edgar Albert Guest
  
• • Those Winter Sundays

  Robert Hayden
  
• • Youth

  James Wright
  
• • My Father’s Nest

  Dunya Mikhail