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What: “The Los Angeles Bards -- Live in Pasadena” CD

Producer: Stone Mountain Entertainment

Distributor: Hen House Studios, Venice

Price: $14.99

Kirk Gibson’s dramatic home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series has been described in many ways. But never quite the way it is in this collection of baseball poetry, believed to be the first of its kind.

Philomene Long, who once titled a collection of her poems “Memoirs of a Beatnik Nun,” offers the longest (9 minutes 13 seconds) and most intriguing poem of the 12 on this CD, which gives new meaning to “poetry in motion.”

Long, in her poem titled “Marcus Aurelius at a Dodger Game: Kirk Gibson Up to Bat,” is at Game 1 of the 1988 Series with the 2nd century Roman emperor and philosopher. Long, through Aurelius, offers a different perspective, to say the least, and Long reads the poem with conviction and drama.

Long’s reading was part of a session held in Donald R. Wright Auditorium at Pasadena Central Library in August, and this CD comes from that session. The host of the affair was Michael C. Ford. Other poets taking part included Harry E. Northrup, Joel Lipman, Fred Voss, Joan Jobe Smith, Eloise Klein and Gerald Locklin.

The CD can be ordered through www.henhousestudios.com.