Maybe you find inspiration in E. Ethelbert Miller's poem, If God Invented Baseball — or NPR's poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's basketball poem, The Show. You can use sport as a metaphor for ...

Baseball fans might read “Casey at the Bat.” Runners have “To an Athlete Dying Young.” Basketball star Kobe Bryant wrote an ode to his sport called “Dear Basketball.” And now there’s a poem ...

There was poetry to write, grandchildren to enjoy, dinners to be had and basketball games to watch. “When I met Mel, I knew that I had found the love of my life,” Meschery says. “And from ...

Basketball has been described by some as "poetry in motion." The world of high school basketball is shared through poetry itself in the latest collection by nationally-recognized poet Jack Ridl, ...

This book, which explores the emotional landscape of a struggling small-town high school basketball team, is poetry at its most accessible. Ridl, a former professor of English at Hope College and ...

But this week the Dukies kind of stole the show.' " She's reading one of many poems she wrote trash-talking Duke men’s basketball. The Plumlee gang helped Duke win. That certainly didn’t make ...

But I wanted a poem, a basketball poem, for my friend Pat Summitt. That's how I came across Mary Karr's poem "Loony Bin Basketball," which, strangely, is dedicated to Phil Jackson. Strangely ...

Can basketball be poetic? NBA players Shaq, Pau Gasol, and Shane Battier weigh in. Edward Hirsch’s poem, “Fast Break,” captures a single slow-motion play on a basketball court. Join Hirsch ...

Penning an emotional love poem to basketball, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant announced that he will be retiring at the end of the season. Interestingly enough, Bryant's poem shares some ...

Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Hello, fellow readers. I’m culture critic, fervent bookworm and hoops head Chris Vognar. This week we speak with poet and essayist Hanif ...