On the eve of our nineteenth year, the sky cracked, its molten innards sloshing to and fro, its boiling yolk slipped out as our lips cried for home. “Stand, stand, stand,” said the boy. “If ...

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

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk. 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in ...

Something out of arm’s reach, like freedom, the stars, or you. Write an ode to misfits. A poem of praise for those who don’t belong here or there. A lyric ballad for the children of nowhere.

Karl Marx published 'Das Kapital' on the first of October 1867. Robert Burns's poems were extremely popular behind the former, 'iron curtain'. The poet's egalitarian ideas can easily be construed ...