The ode as a poetic form was, as far as we know, invented by the world's first great sports writer, Pindar, who wrote his poems to celebrate the winners of athletic contests, especially those ...
Alicia Zuckerman, Editorial Director of WLRN-Miami Herald News, records Odette Barrientos of ZIP code 33013 (Hialeah) as she reads her poem during the finale of the O, Miami poetry contest, ‘Ode to ...