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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train (audio only) David Wojahn 1993
Letter to Brooks [Spring Garden] Major Jackson 2006
Man of the Year Robin Becker 2006
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World Sherman Alexie 2009
Father’s Song Gregory Orr 2002
Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden 1966
My Papa’s Waltz Theodore Roethke 1942
The Portrait Stanley Kunitz 1991
The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke David Lehman 1986
Long Distance II Tony Harrison 1984
Inventing Father In Las Vegas Lynn Emanuel 1984
Working Late Louis Simpson 1988
Descriptions of Heaven and Hell Mark Jarman 1981
Letters from a Father Mona Van Duyn 1982
Yesterday W. S. Merwin 1983
In the Greenhouse Eugenio Montale 2004
Father Outside Nick Flynn 2004
Sonnet 131 [I’d sing of Love in such a novel fashion] Petrarch 2004
My Father’s Hats Mark Irwin 2004
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With Suzanne Rancourt 2004

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