Beatriz Fernandez was the first person to submit a Zip Ode in 2015, about her neighborhood. This year marks the tenth ...

George Szirtes remembers Martin Bell, whom he met as a student, and his ‘Collected Poems’ that glitter with laughter and ...

Ode to a cheese grater ...

Far North Queensland resident Barbara Mendelsohn shares a thank you poem dedicated to all truckies who were stuck in the ...

A reader says Beethoven would be bewildered that the European Commission plans to borrow €150bn to buy weapons of destruction ...

None of Olds’s odes so much as nods towards any of the masters of the ode in English. One of my cleverer students once identified an ode as a poem that begins with ‘O’ – as, for example, Shelley’s ...

Jim Morrison died nearly 54 years ago at the age of 27, his body laid to rest in Paris, France—or so they say. One lifelong ...