Macaroni & cheese.
Peanut butter and jelly.
Ham and eggs.
Bowling and beer
Some things just go together naturally. Like poetry and sports. Yes, you read that right: Poetry and sports.
This month the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard in historic Washerst, Pennsylvania) will host a special exhibit on the extensive and wide-ranging connection between poetry and sports. From the use of poetic terms for team names (like “The Metaphors” – shortened to the “Mets” – and “The Ravens”) to poems about sporting events and sporting events that inspired poems (for example, Walt Whitman wrote “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” after watching a football game between Princeton and Bryn Mawr in 1858 that ended in a tie), this exhibit will feature a wide array of associations between athletics and poetry.
All hyperBALLe aside, we think this will be one of the greatest exhibits on all time! However, If your time and travels don’t allow you to visit the museum, you can always view our online exhibit featured right here on our website – just click HERE.
Then, try your hand at the customary word associations listed below. What word completes each common phrase?
Prison and …
Warts and …
Snickersnee and …
Fungus and …
Hammer toes and …
Peanut butter and jelly.
Ham and eggs.
Bowling and beer
Some things just go together naturally. Like poetry and sports. Yes, you read that right: Poetry and sports.
This month the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum (above the coin-op Laundromat on Dickinson Boulevard in historic Washerst, Pennsylvania) will host a special exhibit on the extensive and wide-ranging connection between poetry and sports. From the use of poetic terms for team names (like “The Metaphors” – shortened to the “Mets” – and “The Ravens”) to poems about sporting events and sporting events that inspired poems (for example, Walt Whitman wrote “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking” after watching a football game between Princeton and Bryn Mawr in 1858 that ended in a tie), this exhibit will feature a wide array of associations between athletics and poetry.
All hyperBALLe aside, we think this will be one of the greatest exhibits on all time! However, If your time and travels don’t allow you to visit the museum, you can always view our online exhibit featured right here on our website – just click HERE.
Then, try your hand at the customary word associations listed below. What word completes each common phrase?
Prison and …
Warts and …
Snickersnee and …
Fungus and …
Hammer toes and …
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