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Hamilton was married to poet and playwright Frank Jenkins (Driving While Black in Beverly Hills) from 1964 until his death in 2014.—
Marc Berman,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2025 -
Amelia Michels, a freelance marketing expert and poet, has spent the last two years of her life traveling the world, living in different places a few months at a time.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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The student contributors, from Harvard, Berklee, and Howard, include lyricists Anthony Bell, Ollie Marinaccio, Rhiannon Rae Ellis, and Dee-1; Sydney DeLeonardis and Ciaran de Chaud; and producer Nigel Sanjai Sanders.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
20 June 2025
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The song is a collaboration with a collective of students, including Harvard University lyricists Anthony Bell, Ollie Marinaccio, Rhiannon Rae Ellis, and rapper Dee-1.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
20 June 2025
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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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Thoughts come, too, about sleep, time, and men, those cretins, pilgrims, scholars, and bards.—
Jane Alison
June 17,
Literary Hub,
17 June 2025
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In other words, the Panthers were trying bard to enlist Sly’s talents and influence for their own purposes.—
Timothy Crouse,
Rolling Stone,
9 June 2025
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The mark that Jewish composers and lyricists left on Broadway and on the Great American Songbook is indelible, from the Gershwins to Stephen Sondheim to Leonard Bernstein.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 June 2025
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Schifrin’s reputation as an innovative jazz composer led to an invitation to write for TV and films.—
Jon Burlingame,
Variety,
26 June 2025
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Classical Field In Classical Categories, composers and lyricists/librettists are now eligible for GRAMMY recognition alongside all other key creative personnel including artists, producers, and engineers on winning albums.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
12 June 2025
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Composer Jasmine Barnes and librettist Deborah D.E.E.P.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
7 June 2025
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In the early 1900s, Black performers often encountered dress code restrictions and had to acclimate their garments to fit the demands of their audiences, particularly in minstrel shows and vaudeville performances.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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One giant got distracted by a wandering minstrel One giant overslept and started late Clues: Brumm is not the fastest builder but didn’t oversleep.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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