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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
Your Father Sunbathing Christopher Bursk 2003
Parents William Meredith 1980
Take the I Out Sharon Olds 1999
The Black Bass David Dodd Lee 2002
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
Daddy Sylvia Plath 1981
The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
The Ferryer (audio only) Sharon Olds 1992
My Father's Love Letters (audio only) Yusef Komunyakaa 1988
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach (audio only) William Stafford 1970
Fishing in Winter Ralph Burns 1983
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
Lullaby of the Onion Miguel Hernández 1989
The Burial Lynn Emanuel 1999

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