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Noun
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The neighborhood, called Jabal al-Joufeh, was historically home to merchants, politicians, and poets.—
Annie Hylton,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026 -
Focusing on Vahdat’s repertoire of classical settings for verse by great Persian poets both ancient (Hafez, Rumi) and contemporary (Forough Farrokhzad), as well as songs she’s gathered from Iran’s various ethnic groups, the project includes percussionist Nariman Assadi on tombak and daf.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
13 May 2026
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The film features original songs and score by composers/lyricists Sharon Kenny and Kirsten Guenther, who are also collaborating on an upcoming stage musical produced by Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door/The Carlson Company.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
11 May 2026
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When Willis took over as lyricist for 1978’s Cruisin’ and 1979’s Go West, the group’s messaging became less lucidly gay.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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Nolan also put rapper Travis Scott in the film as a bard.—
Eliana Dockterman,
Time,
12 May 2026
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In the Time profile, Nolan also confirmed that rapper Travis Scott will appear in the movie as a bard.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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In other circumstances, history (or, at least, classical-music buffs) would remember him as Kapellmeister to the Emperor of Austria, a skilled court composer of some forty operas, and a mentor to Beethoven and Schubert.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Moore is a multiaward-winning saxophone player, and Wheeler is a Grammy-winning producer, composer and keyboard virtuoso.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
18 May 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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