Q Do you happen to know the name of the Jimmy Stewart poem that appeared in Reader’s Digest about his old dog who died? It would be comforting to read it again since we’re about to lose our ...

‘The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs,’ said former French president Charles de Gaulle, while Charles Dickens wrote ‘What greater gift than the love of a cat.’ Did you know ...

Like many of the canines to which it pays homage, this volume is something of a mixed breed. Sidman (Just Us Two: Poems About Animal Dads) presents her own dog-inspired poems, accompanying each with a ...

Boys grow up as free-wandering as neighborhood dogs. Adults live at the edge of lives grim as spit in gin. Dreams skate past as elusively as skittish blackbirds. These images amaze and meander ...

Magdalena Zurawski’s intrepid use of caesura — a pause in a line of poetry — reinforces the theme of disciplined attention in “[Dog Is a Way of Thinking].” The poem’s frequent midline interruptions of ...

It’s a short poem—there are only three more lines after these—and Bidart doesn’t let the comic mood stand. The playfulness crumples (as does, in a sense, the dog itself, once he’s been “Held up to a ...