Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Great Regulars: "Most people don't think of baseball

as a typical poetry topic, but it has everything in human nature that makes for great writing," [Frank] Messina told the New York Times in a 2007 profile. "It has victories and failures and struggles and angst."

In time for the World Series, we present two of Messina's poems:

Apology to a Television Set

from PBS: Newshour: Weekly Poems: a Double From the 'Mets Poet'

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