29/04/2024
Orenaug Mountain Publishing in Woodbury, Connecticut, has released a baseball poetry anthology titled Who’s Your Team? that includes verse from writers around the United States and a foreword by Willie Steele, author of Going the Distance: The Life and Works of W.P. Kinsella, editor of Nine magazine, and professor of English at Lipscomb University in Tennessee.
The book is available through the Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal and in the Lulu bookstore for $14 and will be available at the National Baseball Poetry Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts on May 4.
“The idea for this collection grew out of a highly successful baseball poetry open mic at Woodbury Public Library last summer,” said Ed Dzitko, who published the collection with his wife, Woodbury Poet Laureate Sandy Carlson. “People came from around the state, and we had contributors from California and Tennessee as well as locally who sent in videos since they couldn’t be at the library for the event. People had fun with poetry, so we thought a print collection would be another great way to bring people together.”
“It’s a joy for me to create opportunities for people to explore and celebrate what they love through poetry,” Carlson said. “As someone who is not an athlete and who inherited her allegiance to the Yankees, it has been an education for me to see how many ways there is to look at the national pastime,” she added.
Orenaug Mountain Publishing produces themed anthologies through the year from the work of those poets published to the poetry journal, often providing previously unpublished poets with a publishing credit. We believe that poetry has the power to create community, connect us to each other through our experiences, and place us in communion with the world around us.
The Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal is an e-zine that publishes the work of emerging and established poets. We are committed to publishing poetry that is both challenging and accessible and to giving voice to those who may not have previously had the opportunity to share their work with a wider audience.