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poem

[poh-uhm] / ˈpoʊ əm /


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Charles' poem featured as part of BBC Radio 6 Music's Way With Words event, a day of programming marking National Poetry Day on Thursday.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

When a baby is born, or your daughter gets married, do you read a piece of legislation to commemorate the occasion or do you quote a poem, or dedicate a song?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

A poem declares that “love is like a clasp of jade.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Following the recent success of the new Christopher Nolan film based on the epic poem, curators said they hoped there would be renewed interest in artists' interpretations of Homer's work.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

She’d written such a monumentally excellent poem that she was sure she would get an A+.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

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

“As for death,” as the author writes in one of his brightest poems, “at the moment I think it strangely overrated.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In June they held a gala launch for Devendra Banhart’s new collection of poems, “Four Nose Jobs a Day” in the North Figueroa gallery, published by Unnamed as both book and record album.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

“I don’t really have a plan, not yet. There’s not much of a future in making puzzlers and poems, I expect.”

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate




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