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Title Author Year
Basketball feat. Galileo & EPMD Adrian Matejka 2019
Memorial Hoops Reginald Dwayne Betts 2021
She Returns to the Water Erin Belieu 2020
The First Olympic Ode [Excerpt] Pindar 1824
His Speed and Strength Alicia Ostriker 2016
Sixth-Grade Hockey on the Greenfield Rink Paul Mariani 2020
Lovable Losers Rachel M. Simon 2018
Round 3 Eloisa Amezcua 2018
Rondo Janet Holmes 2011
Bullfight critics ranked in rows [excerpt] Domingo Ortega 1962
Pickup Alicia Ostriker 2019
Relapsing / Remitting Carolina Ebeid 2016
Loud Outs George David Clark 2018
For Asopichos of Orchomenos, Winner in the Boys’ Short Foot-Race Pindar 2026
Asked for a Happy Memory of Her Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field Beth Ann Fennelly 2009
My Son Wants to Know Who His Biological Father Is Blas Falconer 2019
Yogi Rodger Kamenetz 2018
When Benny Agbayani Became a Met Oliver de la Paz 2024
The Ball and Chain J. P. Grasser 2022
Ali! Ali! Khaled Mattawa 2016

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