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Basketball Poetry Books

 

Hoops (1997) by Robert Burleigh

 

   Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems (1997)  by Mel Glenn 

 

 

 

  Slam Dunk: Vol. 1: Basketball Poems (compiled by Lillian Morrison

(contains poems by Jerry Spinelli, Jack Prelutsky, Walter Dean Myers, and Myra Cohn Livingston)

 

 

Slam Dunk: Poems About Basketball 1 (1995) edited by Bill James

 

Slam Dunk: Poems About Basketball 2 (19997) edited by Lillian Morrison and Bill James

 

 

 

Books by Charles R. Smith Jr

 

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  Hoop Kings: Poems by Charles R. Smith Jr

 

  Hoop Queens: Poems by Charles R. Smith Jr.

 

   Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls and Rhythms by Charles R. Smith Jr.

 

  Short Takes: Fast Break Basketball Poetry by Charles R. Smith Jr   

Publisher: Dutton Children's Books  (Three volumes of homage to street basketball)

 

 

 

 

 

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Full Court: 

A Literary Anthology of Basketball

 

by Dennis Trudell

 

 

 (Poems in the anthology are noted with asterisks, short stories without)

 

Introduction  —  Dennis Trudell
At Center
  —  Jonathan Penner
*Backboard and Hoop
  —  Rodney Torreson
*First Cut
  —  Jack Ridl
The Body Politic
  —  Theodore Weesner
*Charge
  —  Christopher Gilbert
*Lowell High
  —  Tom Meschery
  Familiar Games
  —  Jonathan Baumbach
  *To Throw Like a Boy
  —  Nancy Boutilier
  *The Touch
  —  Justin Mitcham
  Horse
  —  Ann Packer
  *A Basketball Game at Newburg Middle School
  —  Aleda Shirley
  *Slam, Dunk, & Hook
  —  Yusef Komunyakaa
  El Diablo de la Cienega
  —  Geoffrey Becker
  *Basketball
  —  Louis Jenkins
 *Dushay's Friend
  —  Dennis Trudell
  State Champions
  —  Bobbie Ann Mason
  *Basketball Player
  —  Leonard Michaels
  *Beyond the Chain-Link Fence
  —  Sean Thomas Dougherty
  The Blood Blister
  —  Willie Morris
  *At the High School Basketball Championship Game
  —  Barbara Murphy
  *For Brothers Everywhere
  —  Tim Seibles 
  Posting-Up
  —  Stephanie Grant
*Rebounding
  —  Ronald Wallace
*The Leap
  —  Cliff Dweller
Hoop
  —  John Sayles
*Anthem
  —  Stephen Vincent
*The Man with the Perfect Jump Shot
  —  Corey Mesler
The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn't Flash Red Anymore
  —  Sherman Alexie
*The Only Game
  —  Carl Lindner
*Fast Break
  —  Edward Hirsch
The Ultimatum of Hattie Tatum
  —  Dick Wimmer
*In Memory of the Utah Stars
  —   William Matthews
*Cheap Seats in the Kingdome
  —    Sharon Bryan
Rookie
  —  Robert T. Sorrells
*Fingers
  —  Gary Gildner
*One on One
  —  Tony Gloeggler
Open Man
  —  Bob Levin
*The Poet Tries to Turn in His Jock
  —   David Hilton
*The Poet's Dream the Night After His Son Scores 36 in a Little Dribblers Game
  —  Richard Blessing
Whistle and the Heroes
  —  Herbert Wilner
*Last Shot
  —  Jon Veinberg
*A Poem for "Magic"
  —  Quincy Troupe
From Downtown at the Buzzer
  —  George Alec Effinger
*New World in the Morning
  —  Norman German
*Basketball in the Year 2020
  —  Therese Becker
Breathing on the Third Stroke
  —  Pete Fromm
*The Jump Shooter
  —  Dennis Trudell
*Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong
  —  Kevin Bowen
The All-American's Wife
  —  Ernest J. Finney
*In the Room of My Dying Father
  —  Marie Henry
*Crisis on Toast
  —  Sherman Alexie
Top of the Game
  —  John McCluskey, Jr.
*Ex-Basketball Player
  —  John Updike
*Night Gym
  —  Jack Ridl
Doc's Story
  —  John Edgar Wideman

 

 

 

Basketball Poems in Poetry Books
 

"The Way He Breaks" a poem by Marcus Cafagña in "The Broken World"

 
 

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