On this Father’s Day, we will look at two poets, Gerald Manley Hopkins and Robert Hayden. Hopkins was raised in a white, Anglican, Victorian, artistic family. He became somewhat estranged from his family after he became a Jesuit priest. Robert Hadyen was born in Detroit and … read more.

One of my great aunts was devoted to her stamp collection. My grandmother had a button collection. As a youth, I had a coin collection. Such collecting is now mostly a thing of the past. Now, through the internet, everything is available to everybody everywhere. What has been … read more.