Out & About: Welcome reception for the National Baseball Poetry Festival at Polar Park
Victor D. InfanteThere was a welcome reception for the third annual National Poetry Book Festival May 2 in the DCU Club at Polar Park. The event included presentations from author Bill Littlefield, most famous as the former host of NPR’s “Only A Game,” acclaimed baseball poet E. Ethelbert Miller and a presentation from Worcester composer and playwright Stephen Murray’s musical adaptation of “Casey at the Bat.” Other presenters at the event included festival founder Stephen Biondolillo, Worcester Poet Laureate Oliver de la Paz, sports journalist Bill Ballou and Tim Murray, president of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Tracy Martino portrays the wife of the eponymous baseball player from “Case at the Bat,”
in a musical adaption by Stephen Murray of the poem by Ernest Thayer, May 2 at the
Baseball Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception in Polar Park’s DCU Club.
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Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tim Murray,
formerly the Mayor of Worcester and the Massachusetts Lt. Governor, speaks
May at the Baseball Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception in Polar Park’s DCU Club.
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From left, Rob Baker, editor of the new literary journal, Three poets
Rodger Martin and Linda Warren; and Worcester Poet Laureate Oliver de la Paz
attend the Baseball Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception May 2 in Polar Park’s DCU Club. Victor D. Infante/Telegram & Gazette Staff
Poets Karen Sharpe, left, and Karen Warinsky attend the
Baseball Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception May 2 in
Polar Park’s DCU Club. Victor D. Infante/Telegram & Gazette Staff
Caitlin Lubelczyk, Vice President of Marketing and Communications
for the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, was the host of the
events at the Baseball Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception ay 2 in Polar
Park’s DCU Club. Victor D. Infante/Telegram & Gazette Staff
From left, author Bill Littlefield, most famous as the
former host of NPR’s “Only A Game,” acclaimed
baseball poet E. Ethelbert Miller and Worcester
Poet Laurete Oliver de la Paz attend the Baseball
Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception May 2 in
Polar Park’s DCU Club. Victor D. Infante/
Telegram & Gazette Staff
Worcester Poet Laureate Oliver de la Paz speaks May 2
at theBaseball Poetry Festival’s
Welcome Recepton in Polar Park’s DCU Club.
Victor D. Infante/Telegram & Gazette Staff
Bill Littlefild, perhaps best known as the host of NPR’s “Only A Game,” speaks and reads a poem May 2
at the Baseball Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception in Polar Park’s DCU Club. Littlefield’s newest book,
“Who Taught That Mouse to Write?’ is due out soon , written by Littlefield with art by Stephen Coren.
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Acclaimed baseball poet E. Ethelbert Miller speaks May 2 at the Baseball Poetry Festival’s
Welcome Reception in Polar Park’s DCU Club. Victor D. Infante/Telegram & Gazette Staff
Longtime Telegram & Gazette sports writer Bill Ballou speaks May 2
at the Baseball Poetry Festival’s Welcome Reception in Polar Park’s
DCU Club. VictorD. Infante/Telegram & Gazette Staff
