Their poems explore with tenderness and anxiety the joys and perils of being a father -- especially a black father -- and how to escape the mistakes of past generations. Full Episode Saturday, Jun 21 ...

Father and son duo Leon Walker and Rob Young will blend spoken poetry and hip hop, gospel and soul music to carry the ...

It's a series of 50 poems about growing up, traveling all over America in the 1950s to follow her father's job in the Air Force. Each of the poems is identified with a place and a date.

When my love for poetry took hold, poems about fathers were the first to enchant me. As a high school student, I reread Sylvia Plath's harrowing poem "Daddy," excited by her audacity.

Discover the most touching poems and quotes to let your dad know just how much he means to you, because no one deserves it more.

Interview Highlights. On why she first started writing poetry "I first started to write poetry, I think, as a way of dealing with the meta-space between racial identity: having an African-American ...

Domestic Work (2000), which won the Cave Canem Prize for a debut work by an African-American, ... Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, ...

If you can’t find the right words, try using one of these sentimental poems for dads in your card. From the nostalgic to the lighthearted, these cute Father’s Day poems will say it all for you. 1.

Final Poem for My Father Misnamed In My Mouth. By Phillip B. Williams. Sunlight still holds you and gives your shapelessness to every room. By noon, the kitchen catches your hands, misshapen ...

At age 3, Shane McCrae was taken from his Black father by his white grandparents — a rupture he explores in a new memoir.

Her first book “Two Minds” is a collection of nearly 50 poems dedicated to her father. It’s a celebration more than elegy.