Sports Poetry Susan Stamberg talks with Noah Blaustein, editor of Motion: American Sports Poems. We hear poets Edward Hirsch and Christopher Merrill read their work. Mr. Blaustein explains that poetry can solidify the magic of sports in our minds. The anthology also includes poems by Carl Sandburg, Randall Jarrell, Carolyn Kizer, Agha Shahid Ali and Raymond Carver. It is published by the University of Iowa Press.

Sports Poetry

February 2, 200212:00 AM ET

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Sports Poetry

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Susan Stamberg talks with Noah Blaustein, editor of Motion: American Sports Poems. We hear poets Edward Hirsch and Christopher Merrill read their work. Mr. Blaustein explains that poetry can solidify the magic of sports in our minds. The anthology also includes poems by Carl Sandburg, Randall Jarrell, Carolyn Kizer, Agha Shahid Ali and Raymond Carver. It is published by the University of Iowa Press.