Absence is not absolute ... SIMON: Let me ask you to read from your poem "Transparent Man." SISKEL: OK. (Reading) My father saw the movie 17 times and bought that suit, the exact one, at auction.

Author and spoken-word artist Daniel Beaty also carried the pain of his father’s absence, due to incarceration. He described the lingering emotions in his poem “Knock, Knock”: Even President ...

To borrow from John McCrae's famous poem In Flanders Fields ... the air was clearly filled with thoughts of absent fathers. Sheralynn Kennedy was a month away from her 14th birthday when her ...