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[poh-it] / ˈpoʊ ɪt /


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The opera was composed by Still with a libretto from the Missouri-born poet, playwright, novelist and social activist Langston Hughes, who connected Haiti’s struggle for freedom to his home country’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 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

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

He never made his home in Germany yet became the most consequential postwar German-language poet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

“They can have just two words if the poet wants them to.”

From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman




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