The media have a long and muddled fascination with children and students reading, especially declaring that we are experiencing a reading crisis. However, even more concerning that this misguided click-bait approach to journalism is that the media more often than not promote crisis rhetoric with misinformation.
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Please consider some poetry of mine on my father and fathers:
fragility (and then i realize)
sins of a father (gods and kings and men of all kinds)
And some favorite poems about fathers:
Those Winter Sundays, Robert Hayden
Daddy, Sylvia Plath
Little Father, Li-Young Lee
Eating Together, Li-Young Lee
Persimmons, Li-Young Lee
The Gift, Li-Young Lee
MY FATHER’S DIARY, Sharon Olds
my father moved through dooms of love, e.e. cummings