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 ...

Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’ The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin has won him quite a following in Russia over the past ...