“Baseball and Poetry” will be author Edward J. Rielly’s topic of discussion at a Windham Public Library on July 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Windham Public Library Meeting Room.
Rielly, of Westbrook, will discuss how baseball and American culture intersect and share poems from his new book, “Ways of Looking: Poems of the Farm.”
Rielly grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin and lived there until going away to college. He received an undergraduate degree from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and a doctorate in English from the University of Notre Dame. Since 1978, he has lived with his wife, Jeanne, in Maine, where he chairs the English Department at Saint Joseph’s College. He and his wife have two children, Brendan and Brigid, and three grandchildren, Morgan, Shannon, and Maura.
Rielly’s publications include 10 books of poetry, four nonfiction books, and large numbers of poems, short stories, articles, and book reviews. He is currently completing a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and preparing a collection of essays on teaching baseball across the college curriculum.
His most recent books are a paperback edition of Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (University of Nebraska Press) and Ways of Looking: Poems of the Farm (Moon Pie Press), both published in 2005. Moon Pie Press is a Westbrook, Maine publisher of poetry books.
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