NPR/ Here & Now Newsroom Host Peter O'Dowd talks with the founder of the National Baseball Poetry Festival, Steven Biondolillo, and one of this year's winning poets, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, [...]
By Bill Ballou, The Worcester Guardian, The National Baseball Poetry Festival returned to Polar Park for a fourth straight year, drawing poets and baseball fans from across the country to [...]
NPR/WBUR: Heard on All Things Considered, by Andrea Shea, America's national pastime is celebrated at a minor league park in Massachusetts... with poetry, AILSA CHANG, HOST: Fans of a [...]
WGBH/Boston Public Radio's "The Curiosity Desk" features a segment on the 2026 National Baseball Poetry Festival.
Tom Caron, the pre-game voice of the Red Sox, discusses the 2026 National Baseball Poetry Festival on NESN with founder Steven Biondolillo.
By Charlene Arsenault, The Worcester Guardian, The National Baseball Poetry Festival returns to Worcester, blending the rhythms of the game with storytelling, music and community at Polar Park. At Polar [...]
Poet Diamond: Inside The Fourth National Baseball Poetry Festival by Calvin Shaw, March 15, 2026 This year marks the fourth year the National Baseball Poetry Festival will take place at [...]
Pitchers, Catchers and POETS Report National Baseball Poetry Festival Invites Adults and Young Writers to Submit Baseball- and Softball-Themed Poems WORCESTER, MA - February 09, 2026 - As Major League [...]
By Victor D. Infante, Worcester Magazine Key Points Dodgers announcer Todd Leitz was the winner of the first-ever NESN/National Baseball Poetry Festival “Green Monster Poetry Challenge.” The contest [...]
Click on the audio player below to hear Todd Leitz, beloved Public Address Announcer at Dodger Stadium, reciting Keith Rohman's poem, "Zen & Baseball."
Out & About: Welcome reception for the National Baseball Poetry Festival at Polar Park Victor D. Infante Worcester Telegram & Gazette May 7, 2025, 8:11 a.m. E.T. There was [...]
Meg Trogolo Worcester Magazine One Saturday night last spring, poets, baseball fans and unsuspecting strangers packed Boland’s Bar and Patio in Worcester for a home run derby of an [...]
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