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poem

[poh-uhm] / ˈpoʊ əm /


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In Dickinson’s green leatherbound King James, we find a possible source for a crucial word in this poem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Despite Dickinson’s well-known struggle to believe, her poem implies a great chain of creation linking art to artist and artist to the Divine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Connolly also presented Trump with a collection of poems by Michael Longley that includes “Ceasefire,” a poem inspired by the 1994 IRA ceasefire that helped pave the way for the Good Friday Agreement.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

In a culture of aggregation and AI summary, the stiffest original thinking still feels as supple as a tone poem, and genuine intellectual ambition akin to a secular miracle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026

On one of the Fridays, Little Britches said she’d learned a poem by heart and wanted to give it as her party piece for Elocution.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Connolly also presented Trump with a collection of poems by Michael Longley that includes “Ceasefire,” a poem inspired by the 1994 IRA ceasefire that helped pave the way for the Good Friday Agreement.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

“As he said in one of his many poems, hope is what we owe people younger than ourselves.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

He said the book was influenced by classics, adding: "One of the only poems I can recite is The Owl and the Pussycat and I suppose there's a similar metre to that."

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The term “Homer-haunted” could certainly be used to describe the “Odyssey”-obsessed summer of 2026, but in fact “Homer-Haunted: The Many Afterlives of an Ancient Poet” deals with poems, not films.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In fact, “Wanderlust” would be considered obscure and little trafficked, as poems go.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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