poem
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Arriaga’s poem is a long series of names, phrases, lines from politicians and writers that encapsulate America.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Recalling the moment she learned the poem had appeared on the exam paper, Cullen - the Meskell Poet in Residence at the University of Limerick - said she could scarcely believe it.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
Instead, the Galway poet was about to discover that a poem she had written seven years earlier, and which was inspired by him, had appeared on the paper.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
He once imagined the poem as a “message in a bottle,” sent out in the hope that it might “wash up on land, on heartland, perhaps.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“He means Hespawoo,” Cassiopeia added, for indeed, “sheeted ghost” was a phrase taken from “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” an absolutely thrilling poem about a shipwreck that the children knew quite well.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Poetry - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Middle School
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