across the world are writing about their sports, lots of sports. A few examples Basketball There was an anthology of basketball poems published in called
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cheap hockey jerseys in residence for the Wimbledon Tennis Championship Ma Harvey, well known in Britain as a humorist and performance poet. Too bad it doesn't seem to have become a tradition. Football i. e. , Soccer The Football Poets Web site, based in England, has been around since the turn of the millennium and its collection is nearing, poems. What's your sport? Send us a poem, your own or a classic, that captures what you love about the sport. Permalink Hearing the Voices of the Beat Generation Thursday August, When I moved to San Francisco in the mid s, came under the influence of its electric and eclectic performance poetry scene, and began to read my own poems out loud at the pressure cooker Cafe Babar Thursday night open mike, the Beat generation was the primary
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