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Title Author Year
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas 1937
Remember Joy Harjo 1983
Daddy Sylvia Plath 1981
Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden 1966
Only a Dad Edgar Guest 1916
my father moved through dooms of love E. E. Cummings 1991
Shoulders Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
A Boy and His Dad Edgar Guest 1921
Long Distance II Tony Harrison 1984
My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke 1942
The Gift Li-Young Lee 1986
Persimmons Li-Young Lee 1986
Victory Sherman Alexie 2016
Yesterday W. S. Merwin 1983
It Is Maybe Time to Admit That Michael Jordan Definitely Pushed Off Hanif Abdurraqib 2019
The Weight of Sweetness Li-Young Lee 2017
My Father. A Tree. Tina Chang 2020
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
The Prestige Hanif Abdurraqib 2019

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