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’s joy in writing terrible poetry. In looking back at it and laughing a little. It’s the joy of having tried something ...

Or even the loss of something less poignant but still challenging: Kobe Bryant, after all, gave the world a poem about basketball when he retired from the sport. The topic of a poem may be grief ...

It’s National Poetry Month this April. Is it worth celebrating? After all, poetry doesn’t seem to be doing much to alleviate the tension in our communities. Ask some of the middle schoolers I’ve ...

Awesome Ottawa is giving two awards for March, one to Susan Johnston to support walking tours of Ottawa fiction and poetry, and one to Patricia Oliveira to support new mesh nets for basketball courts ...

College basketball games, especially during March ... John Wooden, the legendary UCLA coach, often used poetry to inspire his players. That was nice. But poetry is all about rhythm, flow, meter.

And despite her knowing she needed time to build LSU women's basketball, she wanted to get this team to the Final Four. And with some motivational help from a poem, LSU has returned to the spotlight.

UNC alumnus Bob Young is nothing short of a victor — a man who propelled Carolina basketball to a national ... Young pioneered the Tar Heel Verses, a poetry program that appears monthly in ...

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 ...

Jonathan Bastian talks with Gay about his insights on joy and why joy became the topic for inquiry in his latest collection of essays and poems. From pickup basketball games and skateboarding to ...

What most people don't know is, in addition to a basketball star, Mickens is also an extremely talented writer who began crafting poetry in middle school. Using her planner, she'd jot down thoughts ...