James Parker finds inspiration for odes in small and large things: history, America, brain farts, his flip phone, Pablo Neruda, meditation. The Atlantic staff writer’s book Get Me Through the Next ...

Inside his gated, anonymous-looking office building in Arlington, Odes Mitchell snaps open a can of Diet Coke, even though caffeine is the last thing he needs right now. The 57-year-old pharmaceutical ...

“I’m moved by how hard it is to be young,” Sharon Olds says, sitting in the courtyard of her New York University faculty housing building, where she moved two years ago after 45 years in the same ...

Join O, Miami, WLRN, and the community for the return of Zip Odes! All month long we've been celebrating National Poetry Month with O, Miami and some of our favorite Zip Odes — five-line poems ...

Sharon Olds’s inspired new collection alerts us to taboos we barely think about ordinarily. The book is exposed – in more ways than one – and could only have been written by a woman: bold, no longer ...

"For this last half-year I have been troubled with the disease (as I may call it) of translation … " Thus John Dryden begins the preface to his volume, Sylvae, or the Second Part of Poetical ...