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[poh-it] / ˈpoʊ ɪt /


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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

Cullen, who is currently working on her fourth poetry collection, said she often returns to a quote from the late American poet and activist Audre Lorde.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

“Nothing in the world,” he wrote that year, “could make a poet give up poetry, even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

“We would get together and have these very long conversations,” says director Rebecca Miller, who interviewed American cinema’s great poet of tortured masculinity over five years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

That’s what Erica called the piece C.J. brought to class, with all the reasons the poet missed their dad.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison




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