Collection
Poems About Fathers
Whether it's Fathers Day or any time of year, here are poems about all types of dads.
BY The Editors
All My Pretty Ones
Anne Sexton
America
Tony Hoagland
Bewitched Playground
David Rivard
The Brief Journey West
Howard Nemerov
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
- 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