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Poem
A Poem about Baseballs
by Denis Johnson
for years the scenes bustled
through him as he dreamed he was
alive. then he felt real, and slammed . . .
Poem
Baseball
by Gail Mazur
The game of baseball is not a metaphor
and I know it’s not really life.
The chalky green diamond, the lovely . . .
Interview
Yo-Yo’s with Celery
by Ron Silliman interviewed by Jim Behrle
I’ve always wanted to go to a baseball game with Ron Silliman. I’ve admired and been frustrated and challenged by him and made cartoons about him and secretly have been a big fan of his for years. Poets historically can be pretty fun ballgame...
Essay
Baseball and Verse, from Tinker to Evers to Big Papi
by Levi Stahl
I, too, throw it: Marianne Moore tossing out the first ball, opening day at Yankee Stadium. Photo: Bob Olen, 1968. Marianne Moore Collection, Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia.
. . .
Poem Sampler
Baseball Poems
by The Editors
Players Famous and InfamousFrom Casey of Mudville to girls charging the little league field.
“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer . . .
Profile
New Poet Laureate Receives Impossible Advice
by Arthur Allen
Solitude, ritual, and a work ethic that matches the granite of his New Hampshire home. These are the elements that frame the poetics of Donald Hall, who was named the 14th poet laureate of the United States on Wednesday, June 14, 2006.
. . .
Poem
Analysis of Baseball
by May Swenson
Poem
A Ballad of Baseball Burdens
by Franklin Pierce Adams
The burden of hard hitting. Slug away
Like Honus Wagner or like Tyrus Cobb.
Else fandom shouteth: “Who said you could play? . . .
Poem
Baseball and Classicism
by Tom Clark
Every day I peruse the box scores for hours
Sometimes I wonder why I do it
Since I am not going to take a test on it . . .
Poem
First Girls in Little League Baseball
by J. Patrick Lewis
The year was 1974
When Little Leaguers learned the score.
President Ford took out his pen, . . .
BLOG
Poetry in Motion: A Slightly Awkward Attempt to Figure Out What This Term Means (and Thus Maybe Not the Best Example of the Term); Also, an Excuse to Quote Passages of Poetry about Baseball
by Jason Guriel
Occasionally, when we admire a thing – a particular pastime, say – we claim there’s a certain “poetry” to it. If the thing’s a moving body then we might call it “poetry in motion.” For example, we sometimes claim there’s a...
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Poetry’s biggest loudmouth loves baseball, is Canadian
by Harriet Staff
George Bowering was Canada’s first parliamentary poet laureate in 2002. Today, he’s the official loudmouth fan at Canadian baseball games—at least, according to his business card.
Back in the day Bowering wrote about baseball for a...
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Where are all the baseball stats poets?
by Harriet Staff
FanGraphs, a website dedicated to baseball statistics and analysis, bemoans the lack of poetry dedicated to modern infielders (when you're this deeply into the details of statistics, simple, generalized baseball poetry just doesn't cut it). Jonah...
Poem
The Seventh Inning
by Donald Hall
1. Baseball, I warrant, is not the whole
occupation of the aging boy.
Far from it: There are cats and roses; . . .
BLOG: Poetry News
"Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing."
by Travis Nichols
Fernando Perez, Tampa Bay Rays outfielder and Columbia University grad, tells the the St. Petersburg Times what's on his World Series night stand:
"Are you staying away from heavy plots during the playoffs?
Actually, what helps me a great deal...
Poem
Venice Beach
by Michael Hofmann
These are all thoughts — of course. At the edge of the ocean with nowhere to go,
the nearest land three thousand miles away and under different management,
. . .
Poem
How Are You Doing?
by Rick Snyder
As much as you deserve it,
I wouldn’t wish this
Sunday night on you— . . .
BLOG: Poetry News
Can poetry help a slumping baseball team?
by Harriet Staff
"Ask a Poet" has answers at The Smart Set:
My favorite baseball team has been in a slump for over 20 years, and this year, their season is not starting well. Could poetry help in any way?
— Henry
I’m going to give you two...
BLOG: Poetry News
Baseball's Poet Laureate?
by Harriet Staff
According to this column in The New York Times, Tom Miller wants to be baseball's Poet Laureate, "a role that has been vacant since, well, forever." We think since, well, Marianne Moore, but ok. Miller has been tweeting Milwaukee Brewer-related...
Poem
Statement with Rhymes
by Weldon Kees
Plurality is all. I walk among the restaurants,
the theatres, the grocery stores; I ride the cars
and hear of Mrs. Bedford’s teeth and Albuquerque, . . .
