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Let's Play Ball! Share Your Sports-Inspired Poems

LA Johnson
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NPR

NPR wants to read how sports has touched your life — in poetry form.

Maybe a home run is like getting your dream job – 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 — or NPR's poet-in-residence Kwame Alexander's basketball poem, The Show.

You can use sport as a metaphor for our lives — 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 — even free verse.

Share your sports-inspired poem by following this link and it could be featured in an upcoming Morning Edition segment with Alexander.

Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

Heidi Glenn has been the Washington Desk’s digital editor since 2022, and at NPR since 2007, when she was hired as the National Desk’s digital producer. In between she has served as Morning Edition’s lead digital editor, helping the show’s audio stories find life online.

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Your voice has protected public media before. Now, it’s needed again. Learn how you can protect the news and programming you depend on.

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