Hoops, High Jumps, Movement Of Muscles: A Crowdsourced Poem Inspired By Sports
Poet Kwame Alexander creates a poem from submissions about tennis, baseball, ballet, track, football, basketball and hockey, as well as themes of winning and losing and technique and talent.
NPR asked for your sports-inspired poetry and you replied with an overwhelming "game on!" We collected more than 500 responses about games, players and perseverance.
The submissions found poetry in tennis, baseball, ballet, track, cross country, football, basketball and hockey, as well as themes of winning and losing, technique and talent, movement and melody.
Poet Kwame Alexander took all the responses and created a community poem that covers, he says, a " 'poetpourri'
