Basketball Poetry

Basketball Poems

Individual Basketball Poems

Listing does not necessarily mean quality. We're just happy they are poems about basketball or basketball-related

To the question: How do young people respond to poetry, California poet laureate Quincy Troupe responded: I have this poem about basketball great Magic Johnson (entitled 'Poem for Magic') and when I go to high schools, I read this poem.

Kids usually think that poetry is going to be about something else, but when I get to that poem, their eyes always light up, whatever their ethnicity, they just light up because they never thought that a poem could be about a basketball player.

About Basketball  by Derek del Barrio

Above the Rim  by Jeremiah Saul Cruz

Basket Ball  by Anonymous writer (1916)

Basketball  by Hart

Basketball  by Lionel E. Deimel

Basketball  by mickeysterstar

Basketball  by Rachael Kerney

Basketball  feature poem by Justin B.

Basketball Player, The  by Ricci Danielle

Basketball Player's Prayer, The  by William Smith 

Basketball Practice  by Justin G.

Basketball Solace  by Sarah Ferland

Basketball Star  by Tanya (dedicated to Marcos Gonzales)

Basketball's My Favorite Sport  by Ken Nesbitt

Basketball's the American Game Because It Is Hysterical 

      by Robert Swald (in Zuzu's Petals Quarterly)

Courts at Lawton Street, The  by the poet Alan Shapiro

Defending Walt Whitman  by Sherman Alexie

Ex-Basketball Player, The  by John Updike

Fast Break  by Edward Hirsch (in memory of Dennis Turner 1946-1984)

I Thought It Was a Basketball  by Ken Nesbitt

In Memory of the Utah Stars  by William Mathews

It's Only One Possession  by Jeff Smith

Just Me: A Player's Poem  by Tom Krause

Kick Me Dennis Rodman Revisited by Chuck Henson (Drawl: A Southern Poetry Journal)

Limerick  by Jenna Hendersen

Pure Shooter  by Ron Ikan

Basketball Player, The  by RicciDanielle25

Valentine's Day  by Ginny Min

Basketball Poem Collections

VoicesNet: Basketball Poems  

      A Basketball Sonnet  by Maclen Zilber

      Baby Girl   byCharlotteq Rackler

      Basketball  by Anurag Kumar

      Buzzer Beater Blues   by Benjamin Steiner

      High School Glory (A Tribute to Basketball)   Derrick Wesley 

      I Love Basketball   by Ashley Reed

      One Last Shot  by Jacqueline Brown

      Real Basketball Player   by Rachel Roskey

      "The Answer From God"   Adrienne Smith

     Note that VoicesNet also runs a Forum on Sports Poetry

Weird Guys Who Write Poems   These are poems by Chris and Mark on basketball)

     "A" Team  by Chris

     Shoes  by Jason

     Foul Shot  by Mark

     Rebounder  by Mark

Various

Education World: Basketball For Better Verse

We recommend these basketball poetry books

  "Hoop Kings", Poems by Charles R. Smith Jr.

  "Hoops" by Robert Burleigh

    "Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems"  by Mel Glenn

    "Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball"

     Stories and Poems for Hoop Fans edited by Dennis Trudell

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

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

  "Short Takes" by Charles R. Smith Jr.

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