Can I pick ’em or what?

May 9, 2025 · 0 comments

When it comes to poetry, I readily admit my deficiency. But my ignorance didn’t stop me from seeking out two of the best poets as guests on The Bookshelf Conversations.

E. Ethelbert Miller and Bill Littlefield helped kick off (can you say that when talking about baseball?) the recent Baseball Poetry Festival, held May 2-4 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Littlefield, perhaps best known as the host of NPR’s Only a Game which featured what he modestly called doggerel, published Prospect: A Novel in 1989. Miller has published three books on baseball: If God Invented Baseball: Poems in 2018; When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories: Poems in 2021; and How I Found Love Behind the Cather’s Mask in 2022.

Miller had the further distinction of throwing out a first pitch at Polar Park, home to the Worcester Red Sox, during the festival.

 

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