My son had learned the words to Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem by listening to me recite it to him and his twin sister at bedtime. A brave, bright, imaginative, optimistic boy, he loved the drama ...

These are things I tell my son in the same way that Jacob told his son things… Be nice. Don’t drive faster than the signs tell you. Don’t judge the Canaanite girls or any of the girls, or any of ...

“There were many nights where I couldn’t sleep because I couldn’t stop thinking about my son. I found peace in writing these poems, but I never thought they would make it out of my notebook ...

The poem rhetorically and emotionally zigzags, too, between statements and questions. The title is repeated in the first line with an anaphora of “The son I’ll never have,” adding immediate ...

In “Story of a Poem,” we witness a writer revising ... As a poet, I love reading about poetry, so my longing for more of the father-son relationship late in the book is not a criticism so ...

One man spoke at a few of them – his son was working in the South Tower when the planes crashed into the World Trade Center. ... 2001, is also the day I lost my own son,” ended the poem.

There are more than 200 poems about her son and his ... “Tell me what I’m supposed to do with all this love that is left that was supposed to be for my son,” she recalls saying while on her ...