Sometimes expressing your love for your dad (or the father figures in your life) is easier in verse. You can add Father's Day poems to cards or notes, put them on your Instagram with a picture of that ...
Theodore Roethke’s poem, “My Papa’s Waltz,” is in many high-school anthologies. When I first read it, I saw only an optimistic interpretation, so I usually assigned it to classes in June, near ...
In “Self-Portrait With Father,” the speaker calls a meeting (real or imagined) with the abusive father. The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare-boned.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- The world knew him as The Greatest, but to his children, he was known as “dad.” “One message he left for everybody of the world is ‘find the Muhammad Ali within you, live ...
Poetry forever grants us leaps and blurs. Sometimes it’s not enough to be where we are. Sometimes we need to be everywhere: present with the lost, held by transient blossoms. Jan Beatty’s new poems in ...
Everyone is anxious right now, and that seems like the perfect time for this humorous book, “Love Poems for Anxious People.” New York Times bestseller John Kenney brings his funny poetry back, this ...
"My hope is that The Bench resonates with every family, no matter the makeup, as much as it does with mine," the Duchess of Sussex said in a statement announcing the book Michelle Tauber is an ...
Sometimes we meet strangers along the way on this cancer path, with whom we have brief, intimate connections that awaken and humble us anew again. I have stage 4 cancer. He discovered he had brain ...