My son graduates today…we will gather with friends and sit in the auditorium and cheer. He asks me if I will cry. Of course. But first, in the intimacy of our home, I will read these words, a look ...
Today’s lively graduation-week Poem of the Day, by our poetry editor, Joseph Bottum (b. 1959), author most recently of the poetry collection “Spending the Winter,” forms the third movement of a ...