The founder of the National Baseball Poetry Festival, Steven Biondolillo, and one of this year's winning poets, Kathryn ...

After this year's National Baseball Poetry Festival, WoMag editor Victor D. Infante posits that a Jack McCarthy poem is the ...

Poet Marianne Moore, 81, threw out the first pitch at the opening of the 1968 baseball season at Yankee Stadium on April 10th, against the Los Angeles Angels ...

WBUR's Andrea Shea has more on the National Baseball Poetry Festival and its origins. ANDREA SHEA, BYLINE: Baseball bards from across the country descended on Polar Park, Worcester's Minor League ...

For all of the carping these days about the slow pace of baseball, there was a time when our grand, clockless sport fired millions of imaginations. Said firing was helped along by a 24-year-old ...

WORCESTER – Children and families gathered on the Berm of Polar Park to kick off the day for the National Baseball Poetry Festival. The youngsters, prepping for their own big performances, overlooked ...

One of the most famous poems in American literature, “Casey at the Bat,” is arguably the “most memorable piece of baseball writing ever produced,” according to Glenn Stout, editor of “The Best ...

Right off the bat, Sean Carroll hits a home run when he rhymes “wipe the shine right off the moon” with “creature from the black lagoon” in the lead off poem in his baseball-themed poetry chapbook ...

This year’s National Baseball Poetry Festival will run May 7 to 10, and feature readings, workshops and, of course, baseball.

WORCESTER — The city will host a "first of its kind" National Baseball Poetry Festival uniting baseball and poetry with events April 28-30 at Polar Park and in the Canal District. It's also an ...

Gail Mazur says she's been obsessed with baseball her whole life. "I grew up in Boston. My dad knew Ted Williams. Being a Red Sox fan is a lifetime mania and an important part of my lore." In spite of ...