Smith Jr.'s basketball trilogy (after Rimshots and Tall Tales), Short Takes: Fast-Break Basketball Poetry is, in the author's words, ""about those little moments [in the game] that, for whatever ...

silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing. Maybe that’s why poetry has even taken over TikTok. But if you need a quick-acting dose of inspiration, the short poems in ...

By Charles Solomon and Michael Cooper Even before he wrote the poem on which the Oscar-winning short “Dear Basketball” was based, Kobe Bryant was interested in animation. He approached the ...