{"id":21770,"date":"2019-11-13T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/11\/13\/lets-play-ball-share-your-sports-inspired-poems\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T10:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:05:09","slug":"lets-play-ball-share-your-sports-inspired-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/lets-play-ball-share-your-sports-inspired-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Play Ball! Share Your Sports-Inspired Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Heidi Glenn<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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NPR wants to read how sports has touched your life \u2014 in poetry form.<\/p>\n

Maybe a home run is like getting your dream job \u2013 or asking your sweetheart for a first date felt like a Hail Mary pass. Maybe you find inspiration in E. Ethelbert Miller’s poem, If God Invented Baseball<\/a> \u2014 or NPR’s poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander’s basketball poem, The Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can use sport as a metaphor for our lives \u2014 or simply write about the game or team you love. And don’t feel constrained by poetry type. It can be a haiku, a sonnet, a rhyming couplet \u2014 even free verse.<\/p>\n

Share your sports-inspired poem by following this link<\/a> and it could be featured in an upcoming Morning Edition<\/em> segment with Alexander.<\/p>\n

Let’s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> (Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n

Source:: https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/11\/13\/774691767\/lets-play-ball-share-your-sports-inspired-poems?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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LA Johnson\/NPR<\/p>\n

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NPR wants to read how sports has touched your life \u2014 in poetry form.<\/p>\n

Maybe a home run is like getting your dream job \u2013 or asking your sweetheart for a first date felt like a Hail Mary pass. Maybe you find inspiration in E. Ethelbert Miller’s poem, If God Invented Baseball<\/a> \u2014 or NPR’s poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander’s basketball poem, The Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can use sport as a metaphor for our lives \u2014 or simply write about the game or team you love. And don’t feel constrained by poetry type. It can be a haiku, a sonnet, a rhyming couplet \u2014 even free verse.<\/p>\n

Share your sports-inspired poem by following this link<\/a> and it could be featured in an upcoming Morning Edition<\/em> segment with Alexander.<\/p>\n

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