A POEM FOR A SUNDAY: 5/25/25*

THE BALL POEM by John Berryman

The photo above, taken by Terrence Spencer for LIFE magazine, is of John Berryman and his daughter, Martha, in Ireland where he spent an academic year between 1966 and 1967 living in Dublin which was largely funded by his being a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. While there, his 77 Dream Songs won the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Many of the…