These 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. “We like to say that ...

If you want to express your gratitude for your dad or another father figure in your life, we've got you covered with these ...

Her latest work, How I Discovered Poetry, is a memoir about her own ... "The story I tell, the family story, is of the family of an African-American flying officer." Sponsor Message Moving around ...

honor and celebrate the intrinsic value of Black fatherhood via home-based rituals to include the reciting of special poems, the sharing of father-centered affirmations and setting aside a few ...

"I first started to write poetry, I think, as a way of dealing with the meta-space between racial identity: having an African-American father and a white mother and trying to negotiate the language.

Himes takes readers into Lee’s mind as he ponders how his father intended those ... and too science fiction for the Black drama community.” Esther Popel’s poem “Flag Salute” on the ...

Native Guard (2006), which won the the Pulitzer Prize, centers on a black regiment of ... drafts of “Elegy,” a poem from that collection. Dedicated to her father, a fellow poet, it recounts ...

Sure, you could get him the usual fare like a tie, golf gear, or a beer brewing kit, but what if you also made him a card that included a tear-jerking Father’s Day poem? It’s admittedly tough ...

“My message in all of my poems is humanity ... Black history a priority in their household. “My father made us read from the African American encyclopedias growing up. We had to do Saturday ...

found a name he hoped was his father’s and placed a call ... on the role of the book’s title animal, sired Black, dammed white — poems set in the Texas to which he was taken, among ...

The first time I met her she was tiny and her dad was tall. I bumped into them as they were walking through Lincoln Park on their way, the father said, “to the zoo,” and the little girl smiled ...