Poem of the Day: ‘Ode on Solitude’ Alexander Pope was a profoundly ambitious poet — but he knew the traditions of poetic tropes from an early age. So early, in fact, that he wrote this paean to the ...

Ode to the Maggot. By Yusef Komunyakaa. Brother of the blowfly & godhead, you work magic Over battlefields, In slabs of bad pork & flophouses. Yes, you Go to the root of all things. You are sound ...

So when I came across this poetic ode to basketball, specifically streetball culture, in the video above, it totally spoke to me. And will hopefully do the same for you once you click play and ...

Freda Denis Cooper reads her poem "Portrait of an Artist: Ode to Jacob Lawrence," dedicated to the pioneering black American painter who died in 2000. Lawrence was a fixture of the Harlem ...