as in poet
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But what happens when a poet abandons this essential tool?—
Patrick Dundon,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Benjamin Frandsen is a poet, essayist, and advocate whose writing on incarceration, redemption, and resilience appears in exCHANGE magazine, Iconoclast, PEN America’s prison writing anthologies, UCLA Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, and other outlets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Apr. 2026
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Ashman, the show’s lyricist, had died in 1991, so Tim Rice was brought in to work with Menken.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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This new musical by playwright/lyricist Ali Viterbi and composer/lyricist Toby Singer tells the true stories of two Hungarian Jews in Budapest during World War II.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Mar. 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
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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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Thundercat is the bard of absurdist masculinity.—
Daniel Felsenthal,
Pitchfork,
7 Apr. 2026
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And maybe one of those records was… The bard of New England dares to get meaningful on this two-part song, which begins by pondering the mysteries of time and ends with a singalong ode to seasonal renewal.—
Brett Milano,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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Fathoms is the latest in a string of synth albums the composer has made under his own name since 2022, and his first since relocating from Portland to the storied town of Salzburg, Austria.—
Daniel Bromfield,
Pitchfork,
6 Apr. 2026
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The creative team includes set designer Chloe Lamford, costume designer Georgia McGuinness and composer Will Stuart.—
Ryan Brennan
April 3,
Miami Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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The description by the composer (who is also his librettist) can hardly be bettered.—
Classical Music Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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Snapshot is West Edge’s intensive, two-week development workshop in which composer-librettist pairs polish and stage scenes from their works in progress with a team of experienced advisers, a strong cast and musicians.—
Michael Zwiebach,
San Francisco Chronicle,
14 Mar. 2026
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