In merely 20 words, Beatriz Fernandez romanticized her West Kendall neighborhood in a poem. To the west of her Lakes of the Meadows community are “palatial prairies”— the Everglades. To the east, a ...

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 ...

TKH Renee recites her Zip Ode during O, Miami and WLRN's Zip Ode Finale at Vizcaya Museum & Gardens on April 26, 2023. Zip code: 33168. Riding a bike / to open mic / night / close to every place I ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. There are times when the best way to talk about a city is in ...

Inspired by the cleansing water of spiritual baths, aja monet's new poetry collection "Florida Water" is an ode to the ways a poem can rinse, unravel and reveal hard truths. Aja Monet is a surrealist ...

Sometimes defining what we mean by love causes us to fumble around, until we find the right language, or, as in this case, the perfect lived image that captures it all. Tyree Daye does this here in ...

Poet Pattanam Palanichaami thrusts some print-outs of his poems into my hands. “I'm a retired government school teacher,” he says. “I also write. I've brought out four poetry compilations.” He ...