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Arthur Sze is a poet, translator, and editor.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Jan. 2026 -
While the epithet is sometimes attributed to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Ronda has maintained a romantic aura for centuries, drawing creatives like Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles to its mountaintop setting.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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At Joe’s Pizza on Carmine Street, Marc Shaiman, the celebrated composer and lyricist, dropped his slice on the floor.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
5 Jan. 2026
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Schwartz, the composer/lyricist of Wicked, had been on the bill to host the Washington National Opera Gala on May 16.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
2 Jan. 2026
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By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
23 May 2022
Noun
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Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.—
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
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Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
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Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
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But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.—
Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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One diehard fan in attendance that afternoon: John Mellencamp, bard of Indiana, who's been going to Hoosier games ever since his father took him as a kid.—
Jon Wertheim,
CBS News,
15 Dec. 2025
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But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
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Kangding Ray, the composer, producer and DJ who is currently Oscar-shortlisted for his score to Neon’s Sirāt, has signed with WME for representation for film scoring.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
12 Jan. 2026
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Moon was the show’s composer for more than a decade from 2001 to 2017 and scored more than 150 episodes, according to IMDb.—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic, and videomaker.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Dec. 2025
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The librettist Gene Scheer thinned this fat, meaty book down to a fleet skeleton, organizing the characters into shifting pairs.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2025
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