The Academy of American Poets
Home | View Cart | Log In 
Subscribe | More Info 
Find a Poet or Poem
Advanced Search >
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Stafford
William Stafford
William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914. He received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Kansas at Lawrence and, in 1954, a Ph.D. from the...
More >
FURTHER READING
Poems About Fathers
Blood
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Daddy
by Sylvia Plath
Deer Hit
by Jon Loomis
Descriptions of Heaven and Hell
by Mark Jarman
Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Father Outside
by Nick Flynn
Father's Song
by Gregory Orr
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World
by Sherman Alexie
Inventing Father In Las Vegas
by Lynn Emanuel
Man of the Year
by Robin Becker
my father moved through dooms of love
by E. E. Cummings
My Father on His Shield
by Walt McDonald
My Father's Hat
by Mark Irwin
My Papa's Waltz
by Theodore Roethke
Parents
by William Meredith
Poems about Fathers
The Idea of Ancestry
by Etheridge Knight
Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden
Whose Mouth Do I Speak With
by Suzanne Rancourt
Working Late
by Louis Simpson
Yesterday
by W. S. Merwin
Poems About Sons
Come Up From the Fields Father
by Walt Whitman
Deer Hit
by Jon Loomis
Fishing in Winter
by Ralph Burns
Odysseus to Telemachus
by Joseph Brodsky
On My First Son
by Ben Jonson
Yesterday
by W. S. Merwin
Adopt a Poet | Add to Notebook | E-mail to Friend | Print
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach Order Now Buy the CD  
by William Stafford
Get Flash Player




From Allegiances by William Stafford, published by Harper & Row. © 1970 by William Stafford. Used with permission. All rights reserved.


Audio Clip
April 18, 1974
Hunter College
From the Academy Audio Archive
Larger TypeLarger Type | Home | Help | Contact Us | Privacy Policy Copyright © 1997 - 2008 by The Academy of American Poets.