Poem of the Day: ‘Family Snapshot’
Today’s nine-line iambic-pentameter poem, with its braided rhymes, meditates with compressed potency on a fleeting instant of innocent family happiness.

If Monday’s poem by Rhina Espaillat celebrated “the godmother of the New Formalism,” today’s selection in The Sun’s showcase of living poets demonstrates that rhyme and meter remain a poetic lingua franca for a new generation. Boston native Andrew Frisardi, who currently resides in Italy, is a poet, critic, and translator, whose works include a book of poems, “The Harvest and the Lamp,” an annotated translation of Dante’s “Convivio,” and a critical study, “Love’s Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation.” Today’s nine-line iambic-pentameter poem, with its braided rhymes, meditates with compressed potency on a fleeting instant of innocent family happiness.
Family Snapshot
by Andrew Frisardi
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