2025 National Baseball Poetry Festival

Roster of Poets and Poems Selected for Recognition

  • Christine Arvidson: At the Ballgame By Myself
  • David Bachner: Baseball Season in Belmar, New Jersey
  • Stephen Cramer: Apology
  • Darlene Elias: Tomboy
  • David M. Harris: Right Fielder
  • Kevin Hodgson: A Famous Change-Up
  • Tiff Holland: Elegy for Uncle Bill
  • Ben Klemer: Back Home
  • Laurinda Lind: Handoff
  • C.I. Marshall: Elegy for a Minor League Relief Pitcher

  • Christine M. Quirk: Impossible Dream

  • Steve Rodriguez: Escapism at John Galvin Park

  • Keith Rohman: Zen and Baseball

  • Erika Higgins Ross: The Connection

  • Dan Sicoli: bandinetto

  • J. J. Steinfeld: The Memory of a Baseball Fan

  • Lisa Timpf: An Aging Athlete Holds Their Ground

  • Richard Waring: Madison, New Jersey, 1957

  • Carol Was: After Her Last Game

  • M. Brooke Wiese: Under the Eaves

On deck: David Atwood, Robert Brickhouse, Matthew Lawrence, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, George Wallace, Tim Wiles, Gideon Young

2024 National Baseball Poetry Festival

Roster of Poets and Poems Selected for Recognition

  • 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

Roster of Poets and Poems Selected for Recognition

  • 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