The Basketball Poets

In honor of 

World Read Aloud Day

(today)

I had the privilege of making my annual visit

to the Basketball Poets

of Supply, NC.

The current group are middle schoolers

who combine reading and writing poetry

with playing basketball

!

I know, unusual, mm?

And very, very cool.

Here are a couple of the poets

reciting their poems:

(more pics of poets to come)

After they recited their poems

they moved out on the court.

I sure love this group.

Here is their coach and the founder of the Basketball Poets,

Marty Mentzer (at left):

That's me on the right.

What a day!