2024 National Baseball Poetry Festival

Selections for Recognition in the Adult Contest

  • Scott Bolohan: Sneaking Down
  • Jeff Brain: Vampire Pitch
  • R. Bremner: The Ghost Chaser
  • Tom Clark: The Tools of Ignorance
  • Kristen Baum DeBeasi: The Secret Lives of Baseballs
  • Tom Driscoll: The dead
  • Ellen Foos: Punching the Mascot
  • Nate Jacob: The the Glove of the Game
  • Lawrence Kessenich: The Pen and the Bat
  • Tom Lagasse: Open Field
  • John Long: Peck Stowe Factory Baseball Team
  • David Lott: Preseason Report
  • William J. Meissner: The Outfielder’s Girlfriend
  • William Moorhead: Sports Drinks
  • Herbert Munshine: You Should Know His Name
  • Clara Silverstein: Power Hitter
  • Ivan Smason: Triples
  • Stephen Straight: Selfie
  • Karen Warinsky: Little League Moms
  • Sterling Warner: Classic Yankee

2023 National Baseball Poetry Festival

Selections for Recognition in the Adult Contest

  • Rex Arrasmith: Diamond Three Dial

  • Andy Baron: Thanks, Eddie Pellagrini

  • Scott Bolohan: Monument Park

  • Cheryl L. Bonin: Field of Life

  • Kevin Boyle: Baseball Myth

  • Jeff Brain: Neruda Meets Basie

  • Michael Ceraolo: Shakespearean Baseball Sonnet #105

  • Tom Clark: Go Robbins!

  • Richard Collins Davis: Casey Stops by the Ball Park on a Snowy Evening

  • Jessica Costello: Stitches

  • Paul M. Leary: The Call

  • Darren Lopez: Kings of the Diamond

  • Mary Armao McCarthy: The Little Leaguer Grows Up

  • John Russell Monagle: The Old Man Plays Softball

  • Carlo Morrissey: Baseball Memory, 1958

  • Stefano Duranti Poccetti: Baseball from Life to Death

  • Audrey Roth: Cerulean

  • Lauren Silvia: The Field

  • Ivan Smason: The Prospect

  • Rachel Whitfield: God Bless Softball