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William Stafford

William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1914. He received a...
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	FURTHER READING


		Beach Poems
		that they were at the beach [excerpt] by Leslie Scalapino

		Beach Glass by Amy Clampitt

		Beach Walk by Henri Cole

		Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, read by David Kirby

		Fabliau of Florida by Wallace Stevens

		On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman

		The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll

		Toothpaste Kids Sunburn by Jordan Davis

		Poems About Fathers
		'The child is father to the man.' by Gerard Manley Hopkins

		The Last 4 Things [That hard thread] by Kate Greenstreet

		A Boy and His Dad by Edgar Guest

		A Situation for Mrs. Biswas by Prageeta Sharma

		A Story by Philip Levine

		A Story by Li-Young Lee

		American Primitive by William Jay Smith

		Blood by Naomi Shihab Nye

		Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

		Daddy by Sylvia Plath

		Descriptions of Heaven and Hell by Mark Jarman

		Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas

		Father by Edgar Guest

		Father Outside by Nick Flynn

		Father's Day Cards

		from The Princess [Sweet and low, sweet and low] by Lord Alfred Tennyson

		Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World by Sherman Alexie

		Her Father by Thomas Hardy

		Inventing Father In Las Vegas by Lynn Emanuel

		Lay Back the Darkness by Edward Hirsch

		Man of the Year by Robin Becker

		Meeting with My Father in the Orchard by Homero Aridjis

		My Father by Scott Hightower

		my father moved through dooms of love by E. E. Cummings

		My Father on His Shield by Walt McDonald

		My Father Remembers Blue Zebras by Judy Halebsky

		My Father's Hat by Mark Irwin

		My Father's Leaving by Ira Sadoff

		My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke

		Only a Dad by Edgar Guest

		Parents by William Meredith

		Passing by Carl Phillips

		Poems about Fathers

		Renewal [Excerpt] by Chris Abani

		Shaving Your Father's Face by Michael Dickman

		Tended Strength: Gifts of Poetry for Fathers

		The Ferryer by Sharon Olds

		The Idea of Ancestry by Etheridge Knight

		The Idiot by Charles Reznikoff

		The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz

		The Trouble Ball [excerpt] by Martín Espada

		Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

		To Her Father with Some Verses by Anne Bradstreet

		Whose Mouth Do I Speak With by Suzanne Rancourt

		Working Late by Louis Simpson

		Yesterday by W. S. Merwin

		Poems About Sons
		A Boy and His Dad by Edgar Guest

		Come Up From the Fields Father by Walt Whitman

		Epigrams: On my First Son by Ben Jonson

		Fishing in Winter by Ralph Burns

		Goodnight Moon by James Arthur

		Odysseus to Telemachus by Joseph Brodsky

		On My First Son by Ben Jonson

		Yesterday by W. S. Merwin

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April 18, 1974 Hunter College From the Academy Audio Archive
From Allegiances by William Stafford, published by Harper & Row. © 1970 by William Stafford. Used with permission. All rights reserved.

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