Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: David P Miller
Back and There Again Elbows at eye level and instrument cases in the aisle, the city bus passes by the pranksters’ university across the bridge through the music school barrio [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: Emily Pineau
Yelling, Outside, Raking People didn’t know where to stand in a situation where running was supposed to be a good thing. There is something about backpacks, bombs, and Boston. A [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: Matt Ganem
We are Boston Strong We are one Boston, WE ARE BOSTON STRONG Where I’m from You are taught not to fold We will run Until our sneakers sound like thunder [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: Mignon Ariel King
Marathon of Other Plans Imagine there's no Heaven./It's easy if you try. No Hell below us./Above us only sky. For the wounded, for the deceased, for the people who live [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: Denise Mostacci Sklar
The Boston Marathon Bombing (One year after) flex of a muscle under belly of sky legs of a city cut down to bone, healing and no healing, redemption is not muscle [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: Chris Warner
what happens is, a week or so later, a man finds a piece of pressure cooker shrapnel stuck in the rolled-up cuff of his jeans, Proctor Silex still legible on [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: Neil Silberblatt
Marathon Doubtless, Philippides had no time to wash the stain and stench of battle, before he ran fresh from the carnage of Marathon. His sandals still caked with blood and [...]
Oddball Magazine’s Poetry Marathon Presents: Doug Holder
I Saw Myself on the Dudley Bus That Day I saw myself on the Dudley bus that day his eyes: a blinking, flirt with the mid-winter's sun- watching the slow, [...]
Call for Submissions: Oddball’s Poetry Marathon
On the twenty-first of April, Massachusetts will be celebrating its one hundred and eighteenth Boston Marathon one year after last year's tragic events. Two of our editorial staff (along with several [...]