He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed—kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is ...

It’s easy to write bad poetry about dogs. God is dog spelled backwards, pup spelled backwards is still pup, and so on. Rudyard Kipling’s “The Power of the Dog” has a stanza that begins “ When the ...

On a dreary winter day this past March, I experienced one of the most heartbreaking experiences of my entire life: the euthanasia of my dog, Hailey Mae. In a small back room at our vet’s office, I ran ...

A book for dog lovers who love poetry and poets and poetry lovers who love dogs! What better way to communicate one’s love of dogs and the special relationship between canine and human than through ...

matt robinson’s most recent collection, 'Against the Hard Angle', was released by Canada’s ECW Press in 2010. His previous collections include 'no cage contains a stare that well' (ECW, 2005) and 'A ...

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 ...