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[poh-uhm] / ˈpoʊ əm /


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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

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

The poem was first published as an Irish Times Poem of the Week before later appearing in Cullen's third collection, Conditional Perfect.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

“Black milk of dawn,” “your golden hair Margarete,” “your ashen hair Shulamit”: the poem sets German culture and Jewish annihilation to a cadence so memorable that its memorability becomes part of its danger.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Alexander had given up on his Poe poem and was now adding latitude and longitude lines to a large hand-drawn map of the forest.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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